Jessica Beshir
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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 Docu…
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Known For
The DL Chronicles
2007 · TV
Until the Night
2004 · Movie
Hairat
2017 · Movie
Faya Dayi
2021 · Movie
Heroin
2017 · Movie
Kings
2018 · Movie
in love, in memory
— · Movie
107 Street
2004 · Movie
200 American
2003 · Movie
The Gift
2017 · TV
He Who Dances on Wood
2016 · Movie
Journey to Lasta
2004 · Movie