Jessica Beshir
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Female
Birthday
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Place of Birth
Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Also known As
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Jessica Beshir
Biography
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 F...
Acting
2004
as Selam
2015
as Narration (voice)
1999
as Ali's girl
2006
as Gerry
2004
as Partygoer
2004
as Andrea
2003
as Model
Production
2016
as Director
2016
as Producer
2023
as Director
2017
as Screenplay
2018
as Director
2017
as Producer
2017
as Sound Recordist
2021
as Sound Recordist
2021
as Director of Photography
2014
as Translator
2017
as Director
2016
as Director of Photography
2017
as Producer
2017
as Additional Photography
2017
as Director of Photography
2021
as Executive Producer
2021
as Producer
2021
as Translator
2021
as Producer
2017
as Director
2021
as Director
2021
as Writer
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