Acting credits
4
Early stage
Smaller on-screen catalog so far.
Actor
Jessica Beshir
Directing
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
2.4
Moderate attention
TMDB internal trend index. Higher usually means more searches and page activity now.
Movies: 9Series: 1Crew credits: 6
TMDB ID: 1919550
IMDb ID: nm0078660
Known for: Directing
Place of birth: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 2003 - 2023
Years active: 21
Average TMDB rating: 4.8
Wikidata: Q106640283
Other jobs
Director (2)Producer (1)Screenplay (1)Sound Recordist (1)Translator (1)
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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Jessica Beshir.
1.0
Ladan
Director
2023 Movie
IT IS A SOUL: A Portrait of Hailu Mergia
Translator
2021 Movie
7.6
Faya Dayi
Sound Recordist
2021 Movie
6.0
Heroin
Screenplay
2017 Movie
7.0
Hairat
Producer
2017 Movie
6.3
He Who Dances on Wood
Director
2016 Movie
1.0
Distortion
as Gerry
2006 Movie
3.8
Until the Night
as Partygoer
2004 Movie
4.8
200 American
as Model
2003 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Jessica Beshir.
