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    56 years, 10 months, and 6 days old

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    Place of birth:

    Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

    Adult:

    No

    Gender:

    Female

    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 Fellowships. Faya Dayi (2021) is her feature debut.

    Images Gallery

    Best Credits: 8

    Title
    Journey to Lasta
    Selam
    8
    2004-10-29
    0.2198
    Man Woman Film
    Ali's girl
    4
    1999-10-08
    0.2153
    Until the Night
    Partygoer
    4.7
    2004-06-12
    0.7259
    Distortion
    Gerry
    2.6
    2006-03-26
    0.2786
    Memory of a Time Twice Lived
    Narration (voice)
    0
    2015-10-13
    0.1965
    107 Street
    Andrea
    5
    2004-10-06
    0.1976
    200 American
    Model
    5
    2003-08-10
    0.3684
    The DL Chronicles
    Sarah Thomas
    6.1
    2007-05-04
    2.3426
    0 of 8 row(s) selected.