Jennifer Schwerin

Jennifer Schwerin is an award-winning filmmaker (director, writer, producer) working in both North America and China. Early in her career in the USA, Jen made documentary films for HBO and PBS and was nominated for an Emmy award for her short fiction video work. In China for 24+ years until recently, Jen created the first mainland Chinese short films for MTV Asia in the mid-90's and was the Executive Producer and Creative Director of Encore International working closely with China Central Television. Taking her expertise in short-format, highly creative content, she founded TaDaa! Media and Films in Beijing in 2007 as a platform to create feature films, episodic dramas, branded entertainment and digital content for China and the world. Her short film, Unspoken Code (2018) won Best Short Film at The Toronto Female Eye Film Festival, Best Narrative at California Int'l Film Festival and Best Drama at Beijing Indie Short Film Festival. She has written several feature screenplays, been in the writer's room of a Chinese sitcom web series, and directed numerous short fiction film works in Mandarin and English, earning several awards along the way. Now based in the USA, Jen has turned her attention to writing TV series and feature films.