Person

Jessica Beshir

Directing · 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.

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  The DL Chronicles

  Sarah Thomas

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  Hairat

  Producer

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  Until the Night

  Partygoer

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  Heroin

  Director

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  in love, in memory

  Executive Producer

• Kings

  Director

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  Faya Dayi

  Director of Photography

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  200 American

  Model

• The Gift

  Director

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  Distortion

  Gerry

• 2023LadanDirector
• 2021IT IS A SOUL: A Portrait of Hailu MergiaProducer
• 2021Faya DayiDirector of Photography
• 2018KingsDirector
• 2017The GiftDirector
• 2017HeroinDirector
• 2017HairatProducer
• 2016He Who Dances on WoodDirector
• 2015Memory of a Time Twice LivedNarration (voice)
• 2014ZemeneTranslator
• 2007The DL ChroniclesSarah Thomas
• 2006DistortionGerry
• 2004Journey to LastaSelam
• 2004107 StreetAndrea
• 2004Until the NightPartygoer
• 2003200 AmericanModel
• 1999Man Woman FilmAli's girl
• —in love, in memoryExecutive Producer