Jessica Yu
Known for Directing
Biography
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.
Filmography
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie
2025
Director
Quiz Lady
2023
Director
In the Realms of the Unreal
2004
Director
Ping Pong Playa
2008
Director
Protagonist
2007
Director
Last Call at the Oasis
2011
Director
Maria Bamford: Old Baby
2017
Director
Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
2012
Director
Foreveryone.net
2016
Director
Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien
1996
Director
Better Late
1996
Director
Misconception
2014
Director
Sour Death Balls
1993
Director
The Conductor
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Director
The Living Museum
1998
Director
Meet Mr Toilet
2012
Director
Men of Reenaction
1996
Director