Jordan Watton is a writer and director from SYDNEY, Australia.

In 2020 Jordan was announced as the winner of AACTA Pitch: Isolation, a development initiative from AACTA and Monster Pictures for his feature film concept Burn Out, about “A socially awkward yet ambitious outsider working as a volunteer firefighter who, unbeknownst to his fellow volunteers, is lighting the fires they’re fighting”.

As part of the development of the project Jordan was Director’s Attachment with Nash Edgerton on the third season of FX’s black comedy-crime drama series Mr Inbetween.

Currently Jordan works as a commercial director and has worked in both Sydney and New York.

Jordan is a First Nations filmmaker of the Kamilaroi nation. He is passionate about exploring Indigenous stories and collaborating with fellow First Nations creatives. In 2022, he directed “History Is Calling”, the inaugural campaign for the Uluru Statement from the Heart via creative agency The Monkeys and production company Rabbit.

View some of his work here.

For enquiries
Phone: +61 422 382 587
Phone: +1 917 392 3943
Email: jordan@jordanwatton.com