Jessica Yu
Directing
- Born
- February 14, 1966 (age 60) · New York City, New York, USA
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".
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Known for
Quiz Lady
September 9, 2023
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie
November 10, 2025
Ping Pong Playa
September 8, 2008
In the Realms of the Unreal
January 15, 2004
Maria Bamford: Old Baby
May 2, 2017
Protagonist
December 2, 2007
Last Call at the Oasis
September 9, 2011
Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien
March 13, 1996
Better Late
January 1, 1996
Misconception
April 21, 2014
The Living Museum
October 16, 1998
Meet Mr Toilet
January 23, 2012
Behind the camera17
- 2025A Very Jonas Christmas Movie Director
- 2023Quiz Lady Director
- 2017Maria Bamford: Old Baby Director
- 2016Foreveryone.net Director
- 2014Misconception Director, Producer
- 2012Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas Director
- 2012Meet Mr Toilet Director
- 2011Last Call at the Oasis Director
- 2008Ping Pong Playa Director, Writer
- 2007Protagonist