Director
Jessica Yu
60 years · New York City, New York, USA · 15 films
Jessica Yu (Chinese: 虞琳敏; pinyin: Yú Línmǐn) is an American film director, writer, producer, and editor. She has directed documentary films, dramatic films, and television shows. Yu won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject in 1996 for Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien (1996). Yu's film Last Call at the Oasis (2012) is based on Alex Prud'homme's Ripple Effect. Her more recent films have been Misconception (2014), ForEveryone.Net (2016), a documentary film about the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and a Netflix comedy Maria Bamford: Old Baby (2017). In 2019, Yu was nominated for an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Direction for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special" for the Fosse/Verdon episode "Glory". Description above from the Wikipedia article Jessica Yu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Best known for
Filmography 15
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie
2025 · Director
On Disney Plus
Quiz Lady
2023 · Director
On Hulu
Maria Bamford: Old Baby
2017 · Director
On Netflix
Foreveryone.net
2016 · Director
Misconception
2014 · Director, Producer
On Kanopy
Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
2012 · Director
Meet Mr Toilet
2012 · Director
Last Call at the Oasis
2011 · Director
On Kanopy
Capturing Reality
2008 · Self
On Philo
Ping Pong Playa
2008 · Director, Writer
Protagonist
2007 · Director, Writer
On Kanopy
In the Realms of the Unreal
2004 · Director, Writer
The Living Museum
1998 · Director
Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien
1996 · Director, Writer
Better Late
1996 · Director, Editor