Jessica Yu

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Director Jessica Yu's award-winning body of work includes documentaries, scripted films, episodic tv, animation, and commercials. Her film Breathing Lessons won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. Yu's recent documentary on the water crisis, Last Call at the Oasis, for Participant Media, premiered at Toronto this year and will be released nationwide in May 2012. Other documentaries include the theatrical features Protagonist, In the Realms of the Unreal, HBO’s The Living Museum, the hybrid short documentary The Kinda Sutra, and short Meet Mr. Toilet, all of which premiered at Sundance. Her feature comedy debut Ping Pong Playa premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and was released by IFC Films. Yu has also directed several television shows, including Grey's Anatomy, Parenthood, and The West Wing. Yu is currently finishing a film about the restoration of Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique.

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