Jessica Beshir
Directing
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
Behind the camera9
- 2023Ladan Director
- 2021IT IS A SOUL: A Portrait of Hailu Mergia Translator, Producer
- 2021Faya Dayi Sound Recordist, Director of Photography, Executive Producer, Producer, Director, Writer
- 2018Kings Director
- 2017Heroin Screenplay, Additional Photography, Director, Producer
- 2017Hairat Producer, Director of Photography, Sound Recordist, Director
- 2016He Who Dances on Wood Producer, Director, Director of Photography
- 2014Zemene Translator
- TBAin love, in memory Executive Producer