Known For
Directing
Place of Birth
Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Credits
18 titles
Jessica Beshir
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.
Known For
Filmography
Ladan
Director
IT IS A SOUL: A Portrait of Hailu Mergia
Translator
Faya Dayi
Sound Recordist
Kings
Director
The Gift
Director
Heroin
Screenplay
Hairat
Producer
He Who Dances on Wood
Producer
Memory of a Time Twice Lived
Narration (voice)
Zemene
Translator
The DL Chronicles
Sarah Thomas
Distortion
Gerry
Journey to Lasta
Selam
107 Street
Andrea
Until the Night
Partygoer
200 American
Model
Man Woman Film
Ali's girl
in love, in memory
Executive Producer