Jessica Beshir
Directing
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.
Filmography
Ladan
2023 · Movie
IT IS A SOUL: A Portrait of Hailu Mergia
2021 · Movie
Faya Dayi
2021 · Movie
Kings
2018 · Movie
The Gift
2017 · Series
Heroin
2017 · Movie
Hairat
2017 · Movie
He Who Dances on Wood
2016 · Movie
Memory of a Time Twice Lived
2015 · Movie
Zemene
2014 · Movie
The DL Chronicles
2007 · Series
Distortion
2006 · Movie
Journey to Lasta
2004 · Movie
107 Street
2004 · Movie
Until the Night
2004 · Movie
200 American
2003 · Movie
Man Woman Film
1999 · Movie
in love, in memory
Movie