Director
Jessica Beshir
Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico · 9 films
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 for
Filmography 9
Ladan
2023 · Director
IT IS A SOUL: A Portrait of Hailu Mergia
2021 · Producer
On Vimeo
Faya Dayi
2021 · Cinematography, Producer
Heroin
2017 · Screenplay, Director
On Criterion Channel
Hairat
2017 · Producer, Cinematography
On Vimeo
He Who Dances on Wood
2016 · Producer, Director
On Vimeo
Distortion
2006 · Gerry
On Fawesome
Until the Night
2004 · Partygoer
200 American
2003 · Model
On Tubi TV