J.P. Sniadecki is a doctoral candidate in the Social Anthropology Department at Harvard University with an emphasis on Chinese society and sensory ethnography. 

He began making films in his home state of Michigan, focusing on his experience as an instructor in a prison education program.  His first film in China, Songhua (2007), was screened at the 2008 Vienna International Film Festival, the 2007 Shadow Festival, and the 2007 SIGGRAPH.  It has also received awards at the 2008 PLATFORMA Video Festival, the Negotiated View Film Festival, and the Eyes & Lenses Ethnographic Film Festival in Poland.  J

.P. is currently working on Sichuan Triptych, a film about three major events in 2008 that have shaped not only Sichuan but all of China: the March uprisings, the May earthquake, and the August Olympics.