Jessica Beshir

Jessica Beshir

Directing
Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico 18 credits Guggenheim Fellowship 1

Awards

Won 1 Guggenheim Fellowship Award

Guggenheim Fellowship 1 won

  • 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship Won

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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.
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Filmography
Directing 7 credits
Hairat
Hairat
2017 · Director, Producer, Director of Photography
Faya Dayi
Faya Dayi
2021 · 68% · Director, Writer, Executive Producer
Heroin
Heroin
2017 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
Kings
Kings
2018 · Director
The Gift
The Gift
2017 · Creator, Director
Ladan
Ladan
2023 · Director
He Who Dances on Wood
He Who Dances on Wood
2016 · Director, Producer, Director of Photography
Acting 13 credits
The DL Chronicles
The DL Chronicles
2007 · Sarah Thomas
Hairat
Hairat
2017 · Director, Producer, Director of Photography
Until the Night
Until the Night
2004 · Partygoer
Faya Dayi
Faya Dayi
2021 · 68% · Director, Writer, Executive Producer
Heroin
Heroin
2017 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
200 American
200 American
2003 · Model
Journey to Lasta
Journey to Lasta
2004 · Selam
107 Street
107 Street
2004 · Andrea
Distortion
Distortion
2006 · Gerry
Man Woman Film
Man Woman Film
1999 · Ali's girl
IT IS A SOUL: A Portrait of Hailu Mergia
IT IS A SOUL: A Portrait of Hailu Mergia
2021 · Producer, Translator
Zemene
Zemene
2014 · Translator
Memory of a Time Twice Lived
Memory of a Time Twice Lived
2015 · Narration (voice)
Producing 6 credits
Hairat
Hairat
2017 · Director, Producer, Director of Photography
in love, in memory
in love, in memory
· Executive Producer
Faya Dayi
Faya Dayi
2021 · 68% · Director, Writer, Executive Producer
Heroin
Heroin
2017 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
He Who Dances on Wood
He Who Dances on Wood
2016 · Director, Producer, Director of Photography
IT IS A SOUL: A Portrait of Hailu Mergia
IT IS A SOUL: A Portrait of Hailu Mergia
2021 · Producer, Translator
Other credits 3 credits
Hairat
Hairat
2017 · Director, Producer, Director of Photography
Faya Dayi
Faya Dayi
2021 · 68% · Director, Writer, Executive Producer
He Who Dances on Wood
He Who Dances on Wood
2016 · Director, Producer, Director of Photography
Writing 3 credits
Faya Dayi
Faya Dayi
2021 · 68% · Director, Writer, Executive Producer
Heroin
Heroin
2017 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
The Gift
The Gift
2017 · Creator, Director
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