Jourdan Amen

Jourdan Amen

Filmmaker Bio

Jourdan Amen is a documentary director that focuses on projects about marginalized groups. After earning her bachelors degree from CSULB in film production, she continued to pursue her MFA at LMU in non-fiction film production.

Her earliest short "The Home I Never Had" was accepted into NewFilmmakers LA and FineCut. She is currently finishing up her thesis documentary about gentrification in Oakland, California and hopes to pursue more opportunities in the documentary space. 

"My goal is to tell as many stories as possible while using my unique perspective as a young woman of color to document and highlight the racial and political disparities of the world. I'd like to tell stories that inspire and uplift the human spirit. " 

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