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Jordon Scott Kennedy

Writer/Director

Represented by:

Georgia Kanner

Jordon Scott Kennedy is a working-class, award winning writer and director working across film and television. His work is raw, personal and grounded in Northern realism, infused with humour, surrealism and hope

His debut feature Suicide Kelly, made on a £10,000 micro-budget, won Best Picture and Best Director at the BAFTA-accredited British Urban Film Festival. His Channel 4 short Youthless was praised by Jimmy McGovern.

Jordon’s latest film Rocket Fuel – winner of Bradford 2025’s Forge Fund and the Grand Prize from Slick Films and Bolton Film Festival – premiered on BBC Three in May 2025, reached 20 million views online and screened at Oscar- and BAFTA-qualifying festivals including HollyShorts and Leeds International Film Festival. His play Blood’s Thicker, commissioned to mark the Knife Angel’s arrival in Bradford – described by Bradford Council as its most successful youth-engagement project and credited with increasing weapon hand-ins.

His next short, Dynamite Dealer is backed by the BFI. Jordon is working with Fable Pictures, Tiger Aspect, BBC Studios and Fully Focused on original ideas. He is developing feature ideas with Nickie Sault. Jordon is creative lead at The Unit, an open-access creative hub funded by C4, Bradford Coundil and supported by Screen Yorkshire.

Credits

TELEVISION
Production (role):
THE UGLIES
Company:
Fable Pictures
Project details:
Original Series in Development
Production (role):
THE PARADE
Company:
Fully Focused
Project details:
Original Series in Development
Production (role):
DAMAGE CONTROL
Company:
Tiger Aspect
Project details:
Original Series in Development
Production (role):
YOUTHLESS
Company:
BBC Studios
Project details:
Original series in development
FEATURE FILM
Production (role):
SUICIDE KELLY
Project details:
Micro Budget Feature Film that explores generational racism in a marginalised working-class community. The film follows Brendan Kelly, a disgraced former boxer who gets a shot at redemption when his estranged grandson lands on his doorstep, looking for a place to hide out for the night.

WINNER Best Picture British Urban Film Festival
WINNER Best Director British Urban Film Festival
SHORT FILM
Production (role):
ROCKET FUEL
Company:
Fully Focused/BBC
Project details:
Writer/Director. On a Bradford estate, Lenny and Mullet find an abandoned car and turn it into a DIY spaceship. A kitchen-sink science fiction comedy about estate childhoods, big dreams and escaping without going anywhere
Production (role):
YOUTHLESS
Company:
Rollem
Project details:
Writer/Director. Originally commissioned by Channel 4.
‘Welcome to a world where the adults act like kids, so the kids must act like adults.’ Set in the early 2000s, Youthless explores the adultification of three thirteen year old kids on a council estate in Bradford, as they embark on the last day of the school holidays – and unknowingly of their childhoods too.
THEATRE
Production (role):
BLOOD'S THICKER
Project details:
Socially-conscious play to commemorate Bradford hosting the Knife Angel in April 2023.

Credits

  • Production (role)
    Company
    Project details
  • Production (role): THE UGLIES
    Company: Fable Pictures
    Project details: Original Series in Development
  • Production (role): THE PARADE
    Company: Fully Focused
    Project details: Original Series in Development
  • Production (role): DAMAGE CONTROL
    Company: Tiger Aspect
    Project details: Original Series in Development
  • Production (role): YOUTHLESS
    Company: BBC Studios
    Project details: Original series in development
  • Production (role)
    Project details
  • Production (role): SUICIDE KELLY
    Project details: Micro Budget Feature Film that explores generational racism in a marginalised working-class community. The film follows Brendan Kelly, a disgraced former boxer who gets a shot at redemption when his estranged grandson lands on his doorstep, looking for a place to hide out for the night.

    WINNER Best Picture British Urban Film Festival
    WINNER Best Director British Urban Film Festival
  • Production (role)
    Company
    Project details
  • Production (role): ROCKET FUEL
    Company: Fully Focused/BBC
    Project details: Writer/Director. On a Bradford estate, Lenny and Mullet find an abandoned car and turn it into a DIY spaceship. A kitchen-sink science fiction comedy about estate childhoods, big dreams and escaping without going anywhere
  • Production (role): YOUTHLESS
    Company: Rollem
    Project details: Writer/Director. Originally commissioned by Channel 4.
    ‘Welcome to a world where the adults act like kids, so the kids must act like adults.’ Set in the early 2000s, Youthless explores the adultification of three thirteen year old kids on a council estate in Bradford, as they embark on the last day of the school holidays – and unknowingly of their childhoods too.
  • Production (role)
    Project details
  • Production (role): BLOOD'S THICKER
    Project details: Socially-conscious play to commemorate Bradford hosting the Knife Angel in April 2023.
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