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Jessica YU |
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Sour Death Balls |
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Jessica Yu is a filmmaker based in Los Angeles . She won the 1997 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short for Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien, an intimate portrait of the paralyzed writer who lived for four decades paralyzed by polio and confined to an iron lung. She also won an Emmy and a Cable Ace Award for Best Documentary Director.
Yu has served on the Board of Directors of the International Documentary Association, where she was an organizing member of the first International Documentary Congress. Yu was the artist-in-residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston . She has also directed episodes of "The West Wing," "Lyon's Den," "ER," and "Mr. Sterling," as well as "The Guardian."
SOUR DEATH BALLS, which won several awards, including Best Live Action Short at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, was featured at Berlin, Sundance, Telluride, Toronto, San Francisco, Sydney and the national PBS series ALIVE TV.
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