---
name: "Jordan Dykstra"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jordan-dykstra"
fi1m_id: "jordan-dykstra"
imdb_id: "nm2833364"
tmdb_id: 1866444
wikidata_id: "Q18686171"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "26 January 1985"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 80
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T23:17:21.860775+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Jordan Dykstra

## Identity

Jordan Dykstra

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jordan-dykstra
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jordan-dykstra
- **IMDb ID:** nm2833364
- **TMDB ID:** 1866444
- **Wikidata ID:** Q18686171
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Dykstra, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18686171, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2833364/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1866444

Composer. Born 26 January 1985 in Sioux City, Iowa, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 26 January 1985, Sioux City, Iowa, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Dykstra, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18686171, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2833364/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1866444

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*20 Days in Mariupol*](https://film.one/film/20-days-in-mariupol.md) (92)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Jordan Dykstra (born 1985) is an American composer and violist based in Brooklyn, New York. He holds a BFA from the California Institute of the Arts (2016) and an MA in experimental composition from Wesleyan University (2018), and completed an MFA in media scoring at the Feirstein School of Cinema in 2021. He has also studied privately with composers including Daníel Bjarnason and Alvin Lucier.

Dykstra composed the original score for the documentary *20 Days in Mariupol* (2023). His other film credits include *Blow the Man Down* (2019), *Hail Satan?* (2019), *Fair Play* (2023, where he also helped produce and conduct the score) and *It Comes at Night* (2017, music department). He has contributed scores to several Frontline documentaries and maintains an active practice as a composer of chamber and concert music.

*Sources: imdb.com, jordandykstra.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *20 Days in Mariupol* (2023), Fi1m 92, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/20-days-in-mariupol.md)
- *Fair Play* (2023), Fi1m 68, Musician — [page](https://film.one/film/fair-play.md)

## Complete filmography (19)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Dark Hollow* (2026), Music
- *Leaf Peeper* (2026), Music
- *Holding Liat* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *5-cent American Flag* (2025), Music
- *For Satan: The Convert's Guide to Häxan; being tidbits, tangents & trivialities by its author, esteemed connoisseur of the kinematograph, dr. Vito Adriaensens* (2024), Music, Sound Designer
- *Ovid, New York* (2024), Music
- *Inside the Uvalde Response* (2023), Original Music Composer
- *We Were Kids Back Then* (2023), Music
- *Fair Play* (2023), Musician — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/fair-play.md)
- *20 Days in Mariupol* (2023), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/20-days-in-mariupol.md)
- *Echo* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *Plot to Overturn the Election* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *Immaculate Generations no. 1* (2022), Music
- *Into the Silver Ether* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *Player One* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *Blow the Man Down* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *Hail Satan?* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *Two Ways Down* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *The Shrimp's Tail*, Original Music Composer

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