Jessica Beshir
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderFemale
Place of birthMexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Known credits18
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 Docu…
Ladan
2023 · Director
IT IS A SOUL: A Portrait of Hailu Mergia
2021 · Translator
IT IS A SOUL: A Portrait of Hailu Mergia
2021 · Producer
Faya Dayi
2021 · Sound Recordist
Faya Dayi
2021 · Director of Photography
Faya Dayi
2021 · Executive Producer
Faya Dayi
2021 · Producer
Faya Dayi
2021 · Director
Faya Dayi
2021 · Writer
Kings
2018 · Director
The Gift
2017 · Director
The Gift
2017 · Creator
Heroin
2017 · Screenplay
Heroin
2017 · Additional Photography
Heroin
2017 · Director
Heroin
2017 · Producer
Hairat
2017 · Producer
Hairat
2017 · Director of Photography
Hairat
2017 · Sound Recordist
Hairat
2017 · Director
He Who Dances on Wood
2016 · Producer
He Who Dances on Wood
2016 · Director
He Who Dances on Wood
2016 · Director of Photography
Memory of a Time Twice Lived
2015 · Narration (voice)
Zemene
2014 · Translator
The DL Chronicles
2007 · Sarah Thomas
Distortion
2006 · Gerry
Journey to Lasta
2004 · Selam
107 Street
2004 · Andrea
Until the Night
2004 · Partygoer
200 American
2003 · Model
Man Woman Film
1999 · Ali's girl
in love, in memory
Executive Producer
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