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
all 17
Movies 15
Director 7
TV Shows 2
Producer 1
Director
Ladan (2023)
Movie
Director
Faya Dayi (2021)
Movie
Director
Kings (2018)
Movie
Creator / Director
The Gift (2017)
TV
Director
Heroin (2017)
Movie
Director
Hairat (2017)
Movie
Director
He Who Dances on Wood (2016)
Movie
Narration
Memory of a Time Twice Lived (2015)
Movie
Translator
Zemene (2014)
Movie
Sarah Thomas
The DL Chronicles (2007)
TV
Gerry
Distortion (2006)
Movie
Selam
Journey to Lasta (2004)
Movie
Andrea
107 Street (2004)
Movie
Partygoer
Until the Night (2004)
Movie
Model
200 American (2003)
Movie
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Ali's girl
Man Woman Film (1999)
Movie
Producer / Translator
IT IS A SOUL: A Portrait of Hailu Mergia
Movie
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