Jessica Beshir

Jessica Beshir

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.
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    Directing
    Place of birth
    Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Until the Night
Until the Night
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Journey to Lasta
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Distortion
Distortion
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Memory of a Time Twice Lived
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107 Street
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200 American
200 American
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