Directing
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".
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Also known as | Jessica Lingman Yu |
Popular as | Directing |
Gender | FEMALE |
Birthday | February 14, 1966 (59 years old) |
Year | Movie & Role |
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2023 | Quiz Lady as Directing |
2014 | Misconception as Directing |
2014 | Misconception as Production |
2012 | Meet Mr Toilet as Directing |
2011 | Last Call at the Oasis as Directing |
2008 | Capturing Reality as Self |
2008 | Ping Pong Playa as Writing |
2008 | Ping Pong Playa as Directing |
2007 | Protagonist as Directing |
2007 | Protagonist as Writing |
2007 | Protagonist as Editing |
2004 | In the Realms of the Unreal as Directing |
1996 | Better Late as Directing |
1996 | Better Late as Editing |
1996 | Better Late as Writing |
1996 | Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien as Directing |
1996 | Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien as Writing |
1996 | Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien as Production |
1996 | Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien as Editing |
1993 | Sour Death Balls as Directing |