Jessica Yu

Known for DirectingBorn 1966-02-14 (age 60)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Men of Reenaction

The Lyon's Den

The Rookie

Only Murders in the Building

This Is Us

Mister Sterling

Grey's Anatomy

The West Wing

American Horror Story

Castle

The Morning Show

Billions

Ratched

ER

The Recruit

13 Reasons Why

Bluff City Law

In Treatment

Last Call at the Oasis

56 Days

Hollywood

Stumptown

Walker

Fosse/Verdon

In the Realms of the Unreal

Long Bright River

Citadel

Sorry for Your Loss

The Living Museum

Protagonist

Quiz Lady

American Crime

The Affair

Pure Genius

The Oscars

A Very Jonas Christmas Movie

Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien

Capturing Reality

Ping Pong Playa

Sour Death Balls

Ten Days in the Valley

Maria Bamford: Old Baby

American Dreams

Misconception

Better Late

Foreveryone.net

Meet Mr Toilet

Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas