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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DirectingGender
FemaleKnown Movie Credits
15Place of birth
Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/p8lrUyDoNiteINEPwAqrsoGY5QC.jpg)
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Crew credits
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/yNNjIzuS474LYj2HS3iXEAsxXP7.jpg)
Hairat
Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Sound Recordist![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/tb5VzMxTZ6hh4k33VWD19Uo7a3T.jpg)
Faya Dayi
Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Sound Recordist, Executive Producer, Producer![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/zckLUxBEMwx6MZyY3K8ukvN7BZi.jpg)
He Who Dances on Wood
Director, Producer, Director of Photography![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/3XlazXd890G1OiFTHMcj2PtsLRn.jpg)
Heroin
Director, Screenplay, Producer, Additional Photography![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/h5p1MvNItRxXKtoMUAAP1dYscjq.jpg)
Ladan
Director