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Jessica Beshir
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…
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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.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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2023
Ladan
Movie Director
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2021
IT IS A SOUL: A Portrait of Hailu Mergia
Movie Translator
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2021
Faya Dayi
Movie Sound Recordist
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2018
Kings
Movie Director
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2017
The Gift
TV show Director
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2017
Heroin
Movie Screenplay
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2017
Hairat
Movie Producer
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2016
He Who Dances on Wood
Movie Director
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2015
Memory of a Time Twice Lived
Movie Narration (voice)
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2014
Zemene
Movie Translator
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2007
The DL Chronicles
TV show Sarah Thomas
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2006
Distortion
Movie Gerry
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2004
Journey to Lasta
Movie Selam
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2004
107 Street
Movie Andrea
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2004
Until the Night
Movie Partygoer
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2003
200 American
Movie Model
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1999
Man Woman Film
Movie Ali's girl
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in love, in memory
Movie Executive Producer
