Jessica Beshir

Jessica Beshir is a MexicanEthiopian 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