Jessica Beshir
Known for
Directing
Birthplace
Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
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.
Best known work
200 American
2003
Faya Dayi
2021
Until the Night
2004
The DL Chronicles
2007
Hairat
2017
Distortion
2006
He Who Dances on Wood
2016
Man Woman Film
1999Journey to Lasta
2004107 Street
2004Filmography
TBA
in love, in memoryExecutive Producer
2023
LadanDirector
2021
IT IS A SOUL: A Portrait of Hailu MergiaProducer, Translator
2021
Faya DayiDirector of Photography, Sound Recordist, Executive Producer, Producer, Director, Writer
2018
KingsDirector
2017
2017
HeroinDirector, Screenplay, Producer, Additional Photography
2017
HairatProducer, Director of Photography, Sound Recordist, Director
2016
He Who Dances on WoodDirector, Producer, Director of Photography
2015
Memory of a Time Twice Livedas Narration (voice)
2014
ZemeneTranslator
2007
2006
Distortionas Gerry
2004
Journey to Lastaas Selam
2004
107 Streetas Andrea
2004
Until the Nightas Partygoer
2003
200 Americanas Model
1999
Man Woman Filmas Ali's girl