Name Jordan Canning | Role Film director | |
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Movies We Were Wolves, Not Over Easy, Seconds, Bedroom Awards Canadian Comedy Award for Internet / Best Direction in a Web Series Similar People Dan Beirne, Peter Mooney, Lynda Boyd, Melanie Scrofano, William D MacGillivray | ||
Jordan Canning, the director of Suck It Up
Jordan Canning (born August 3, 1982) is a Canadian film director and writer. She has directed over a dozen short films which have screened and at festivals all over the world including the Toronto International Film Festival, the Tribeca Film Festival and Interfilm Berlin.
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Early life
Canning was born in Newfoundland.
Career
Canning worked at the St. John's International Women's Festival and wrote film reviews for local newspapers. She also worked as a Film Analyst, categorizing films for Netflix.
Canning's films have won a number of awards, including two Golden Sheaf Awards, three awards at the NSI Online Short Film Festival, and top prize at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival RBC Emerging Filmmaker Competition. In 2015, Canning was awarded the Women In the Director's Chair Feature Film Award.
Canning's 2014 film We were Wolves screened at the Toronto Film Festival and is distributed by Video Services Corp.