• "Jordan isn't waiting for a green light. He's building his own traffic patterns."

    — No Film School

  • "Slowly and with horses."

    — D Magazine

Selected press

On El Tonto Por Cristo:

"A gorgeous, meditative, black-and-white journey that manages to bridge the gap between deep Texas roots and the high-art sensibilities of Andrei Tarkovsky." — No Film School

"Jordan's vision is strikingly bold and original." — Letterboxd

"A strange, luminous film... it is art in the plainest, most essential sense." — Brownstone

Shot in 15 days on a self-financed budget. Premiered at the historic Texas Theatre in Dallas and toured to theaters nationwide on a live roadshow.

On This World Won't Break:

"It's slow and patient in all the right ways... its closest spiritual forebear is Bruce Beresford's masterpiece Tender Mercies." — William Boyle, Southwest Review

"Josh David Jordan's debut has the poetry of a good musical drama and the feel of a documentary." — Loud and Clear Reviews

A man with long gray hair, a beard, and wearing dark sunglasses, standing in front of a wall with the logo and text for The Kennedy Center and the date 2.9.26.
A painted poster featuring a man with a beard and hat playing a guitar, and two women with hats. The poster includes several film festival award logos and laurels, with a background of a sunset and silhouettes of houses and trees. The text reads: "Country Music Is The Sound Of A Good Man Feeling Bad. THIS WORLD WON'T BREAK."

"It's slow and patient in all the right ways... its closest spiritual forebear is Bruce Beresford's masterpiece Tender Mercies." —

William Boyle, Southwest Review

FILMOGRAPHY

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El Tonto Por Cristo (2025) — Feature Film · Writer/Director A black-and-white story of a Holy Fool at an Eastern Orthodox monastery on the Texas Gulf Coast, shot in 15 days. Premiered at the Texas Theatre in Dallas; toured historic theaters nationally via a live roadshow model; screened at the Kennedy Center as part of the Films Across Faith Traditions series.

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This World Won't Break (2019) — Feature Film · Writer/Director A self-funded ($36,000) drama about a Texas troubadour chasing meaning through music while wrestling with doubt and failure. Winner of 13+ festival awards; distributed theatrically and on all major streaming platforms.

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Joshua Ray Walker: Sexy After Dark (2021) — Director Music film / performance piece for singer-songwriter Joshua Ray Walker.

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Sam and Gus (2014) — Short Film · Writer/Director Winner of multiple festival and audience awards.

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Music Videos — Director The Polyphonic Spree · Rhett Miller (Old 97's) · Joshua Ray Walker

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Television — Director Joshua Ray Walker, live performance, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon

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