Directing
Jessica Beshir
EN, OM cinema · 16 credits
Birthplace
Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
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.
Known for
Filmography
in love, in memory
Executive Producer
Ladan
Director
Faya Dayi
Sound Recordist, Director of Photography, Executive Producer, Producer, Director, Writer
IT IS A SOUL: A Portrait of Hailu Mergia
Translator, Producer
Kings
2018
Kings
Director
Hairat
Producer, Director of Photography, Sound Recordist, Director
Heroin
Screenplay, Additional Photography, Director, Producer
He Who Dances on Wood
Producer, Director, Director of Photography
Memory of a Time Twice Lived
2015
Memory of a Time Twice Lived
as Narration (voice)
Zemene
2014
Zemene
Translator
Distortion
as Gerry
Until the Night
as Partygoer
107 Street
2004
107 Street
as Andrea
200 American
as Model
Man Woman Film
1999
Man Woman Film
as Ali's girl