Jessica Beshir
Known for: Directing
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Place of birth: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Jessica Beshir is a Mexican-Ethiopian documentary filmmaker, producer and cinematographer based in Brooklyn. She graduated in Film Studies and Literature at UCLA, after which she made several internationally acclaimed short films. The short documentary He Who Dances on Wood (2016) was selected for Hot Docs and won Best International Documentary Short at Edmonton Film Festival and the Jury Award at Anchorage International Film Festival. Hairat (2017) premiered at Sundance, was screened at IFFR and IDFA and won several awards at various other festivals. Beshir is a recipient of the Sundance Documentary Film Program, Jerome Foundation and NYFA Fellowships. Faya Dayi (2021) is her feature debut.
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Filmography
16 movies · 2 TV shows, newest first
1.0
Ladan
2023
10.0
IT IS A SOUL: A Portrait of Hailu Mergia
2021
7.4
Faya Dayi
20216.0
Kings
2018NR
The Gift
2017
6.0
Heroin
2017
7.0
Hairat
2017
6.3
He Who Dances on Wood
2016NR
Memory of a Time Twice Lived
2015NR
Zemene
2014
6.0
The DL Chronicles
2007
2.6
Distortion
20068.0
Journey to Lasta
20045.0
107 Street
2004
4.7
Until the Night
2004
5.0
200 American
20034.0
Man Woman Film
1999
NR
in love, in memory
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