Jaydn is a U.S.-based, French-Australian non-fiction director, producer, cinematographer, and editor. His work focuses on the human rights implications of applied sciences, and how histories, technologies, and traumas are embedded in community spaces, hidden sanctuaries, and built environments.

 

Jaydn's films are known for their associative narrative style, blending observational, essayistic, and mixed-media elements to create rich, multi-layered stories. As director, his films have been supported by Field of Vision, Doc Society, Amnesty International, Forensic Architecture, and the Ads-Up Refugee Network, among others, as well as over 1,300 donors. He has produced and edited films that have  premiered at major festivals, including SXSW, Hot Docs, AFI, New Orleans International Film Festival, and Indy Shorts. Additionally he has shot independently for feature-length and television documentaries.

 

Jaydn’s productions have been covered in Forbes, The Guardian, Scientific American, The Australian Book Review, openDemocracy, and New York Daily News.  Jaydn is a Co-Creation Lab Fellow at Doc Society; an Art & Impact Fellow at Doc Society and the Australian International Documentary Conference; a  Doc.Lab.Interact Fellow with Anagram, VicScreen, and AIDC; and a Development Studio Fellow at the NYU Production Lab. He holds a BFA in Film & Television from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He resides on Lenape land in New York and was raised on Gadigal land of the Eora Nation, the traditional custodians of the place we now call Sydney.