Person
Jessica Yu
Directing
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Feb 14, 1966
- From
- New York City, New York, USA
Jessica Yu (Chinese: 虞琳敏; pinyin: Yú Línmǐn) is an American film director, writer, producer, and editor. She has directed documentary films, dramatic films, and television shows. Yu won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject in 1996 for Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien (1996). Yu's film Last Call at the Oasis (2012) is based on Alex Prud'homme's Ripple Effect. Her more recent films have been Misconception (2014), ForEveryone.Net (2016), a documentary film about the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and a Netflix comedy Maria Bamford: Old Baby (2017). In 2019, Yu was nominated for an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Direction for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special" for the Fosse/Verdon episode "Glory". Description above from the Wikipedia article Jessica Yu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The Oscars
Capturing Reality
The Jon Stewart Show
In the Realms of the Unreal
Better Late
Ping Pong Playa
Protagonist
Last Call at the Oasis
Meet Mr Toilet
Quiz Lady
Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien
Sour Death Balls
Misconception
Foreveryone.net
Maria Bamford: Old Baby
The Living Museum
Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie