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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Journey to Lasta
2004

Journey to Lasta

Man Woman Film
1999

Man Woman Film

Until the Night
2004

Until the Night

Distortion
2006

Distortion

Memory of a Time Twice Lived
2015

Memory of a Time Twice Lived

107 Street
2004

107 Street

200 American
2003

200 American