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The Dancing Man of L.A.

Howard Mordoh starring in his first music video performance for the band “The Know.”

One man dance party Howard Mordoh, a longtime fixture of the LA concert scene, copes with the cancelled concerts and isolation of life during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Premiere Date

May 24, 2021

Length

26 minutes

Funding Type

Co-Production

Jennifer Fodor

Director

Jennifer Fodor is a Michigan native who has been living and working in LA for over 10 years. She’s worked with directors such as Spike Jonze, on music videos for the Foo Fighters, and as shooter/producer on MTV’s MADE. She’s worked with celebrity talent such as Jennifer Aniston, Jimmy Kimmel, Sofia Vergara, Michael Strahan, and Jon Hamm on various PSAs. Jennifer has experience on commercial sets, music video productions, movies, and documentary shoots. As an artist manager, she’s worked closely with musicians and bands. From her music industry contacts, she created and hosts her podcast I Love Music. She interviews people in the music industry - music supervisors, agents, artists - to hear each person’s unique journey. She’s a songwriter and avid concert enthusiast attending 3+ concerts per week when there’s not a pandemic.

Close up image of The Dancing Man director, Schott Sheppard.
Scott Sheppard

Director

Scott Sheppard is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work has screened internationally. He directed and produced the feature documentaries An Act of Love (Hulu) and Planes, Trains & Autorickshaws (Amazon Prime). An Act of Love won the audience award at the Mill Valley Film Festival and played over 175 times at film festivals and community screenings. He co-produced and edited the documentary Magnolia’s Hope about a family struggling with Rett Syndrome.

As an editor, he worked on director Antoine Fuqua's documentary about infamous gangster rap mogul, Suge Knight, American Dream/American Knightmare for Showtime. He was an additional editor on the documentary, Erasing Family, about high conflict divorce and its effects on children. He has edited commercials, PSAs, shorts, and digital content for Universal, Showtime, Canon, Bank of America, Ad Council, Adobe, SoFi, American Heart Association, and many more.

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