Cast & creator
Jessica Beshir
Best known for The DL Chronicles, Until the Night, Hairat
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.
30
film credits
3
television credits
8
1999–2023 · acting roles
6.3
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (33)
Showing 33 of 33 credits
The DL Chronicles
Sarah Thomas
2007
Until the Night
Partygoer
2004
Hairat
Producer
2017Hairat
Director of Photography
2017Hairat
Sound Recordist
2017Hairat
Director
2017
Faya Dayi
Director of Photography
2021Faya Dayi
Sound Recordist
2021Faya Dayi
Executive Producer
2021Faya Dayi
Producer
2021Faya Dayi
Director
2021Faya Dayi
Writer
2021
Heroin
Director
2017Heroin
Screenplay
2017Heroin
Producer
2017Heroin
Additional Photography
2017
in love, in memory
Executive Producer
200 American
Model
2003Kings
Director
2018
Distortion
Gerry
2006
Ladan
Director
2023
IT IS A SOUL: A Portrait of Hailu Mergia
Producer
2021IT IS A SOUL: A Portrait of Hailu Mergia
Translator
2021107 Street
Andrea
2004Memory of a Time Twice Lived
Narration (voice)
2015
He Who Dances on Wood
Director
2016He Who Dances on Wood
Producer
2016He Who Dances on Wood
Director of Photography
2016Man Woman Film
Ali's girl
1999Zemene
Translator
2014Journey to Lasta
Selam
2004The Gift
Director
2017The Gift
Creator
2017