- Social impact
Documentary on the global water crisis featuring Erin Brockovich, credited with raising public awareness of water scarcity and contamination in the U.S.
Jessica Yu
1966 – Present
- Genres
- DocumentaryComedy
- Region
- North America
- Heritage
- United StatesChina
- Featured in
- Activist Cinema
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.
Selected Filmography
Selected Recognition
Protagonist
2007- Nominee
Sundance Film Festival · Grand Jury Prize - Documentary (2007) · Nominee
- First
Weaves four true stories through the structure of Greek tragedy, an experiment in nonfiction form for Yu
- Nominee
Writers Guild of America Award · (2004) · Nominee







