Jessica Beshir

Jessica Beshir

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.

filmography:

107 Street 107 Street

2004

200 American 200 American

2003

Until the Night Until the Night

2004

Distortion Distortion

2006

Memory of a Time Twice Lived Memory of a Time Twice Lived

2015

Man Woman Film Man Woman Film

1999

Journey to Lasta Journey to Lasta

2004

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