Director

Jessica Beshir

Directing

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Directed movies: 2Directed series: 0All crew credits: 7

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: 4.83

Wikidata: Q106640283

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Director (2)Executive Producer (1)Producer (1)Screenplay (1)Sound Recordist (1)Translator (1)

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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.