Jessica Beshir
Known For: Directing
Biography
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.
Filmography
2023
- Ladan ... (Director)
2021
- Faya Dayi ... (Sound Recordist)
- IT IS A SOUL: A Portrait of Hailu Mergia ... (Translator)
2018
- Kings ... (Director)
2016
- He Who Dances on Wood ... (Director)
2015
- Memory of a Time Twice Lived as Narration (voice)
2014
- Zemene ... (Translator)
2007
- The DL Chronicles as Sarah Thomas
2006
- Distortion as Gerry
2004
- Until the Night as Partygoer
- Journey to Lasta as Selam
- 107 Street as Andrea
2003
- 200 American as Model
1999
- Man Woman Film as Ali's girl