After studying Mandarin in post-Mao China, Jordan Riefe got into the film business as a camera assistant working with directors like Steven Soderbergh and Tom Hanks. He has been covering the film business since the late 90s for outlets like Reuters, THR.com, and the Wrap, and wrote a movie that was produced in China in 2007. These days he reports mainly art, culture, travel, theater and photography.