Sniadecki was born on a goat farm in Michigan, grew up in the rustbelt of Northern Indiana, and has lived and worked for several years in China. A filmmaker and Assistant Professor in the Performing and Media Arts department at Cornell University, he produces work at the intersection of cinema and ethnography.
Sniadecki's films screen at festivals such as the Berlinale, the New York Film Festival, and the Edinburgh International Film Festival, and have received several awards, including the Joris Ivens Award at Cinema du Reel for Demolition (Chaiqian) (2008), a Jury...