Name Jessica Yu Books THE LIVING MUSEUM | Role Film director | |
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Full Name Jessica Lingmin Yu Occupation Director, writer, producer Parents Connie Young Yu, Kou-ping Yu Movies In the Realms of the Unreal, Last Call at the Oasis, Ping Pong Playa, Protagonist, Meet Mr Toilet Similar People Jimmy Tsai, Henry Darger, Elise Pearlstein, Mark Salzman, Roger Fan Profiles | ||
Children Ava Salzman, Esme Salzman | ||
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Jessica Lingmin Yu (born 14 February 1966) is an American film director, writer, producer, and editor. She has directed documentary films, dramatic films, and television shows. Yu won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject for Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien (1997). Yu's film Last Call at the Oasis (2012), is based upon Alex Prud'homme's Ripple Effect. Her more recent films have been: Misconception (2014), and ForEveryone.Net (2016), a documentary film about the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
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- Jessica yu ping pong playa talks at google
- Overpopulation is a myth q a with misconception filmmaker jessica yu
- Early life
- Personal life
- Selective filmography as director
- References
Overpopulation is a myth q a with misconception filmmaker jessica yu
Early life
Yu grew up in Los Altos Hills, California and graduated from Gunn High School in Palo Alto. There she wrote for the school newspaper, The Oracle. She then went to Yale University, majored in English and was an NCAA All-American in fencing. As a world-class foilist, she was a member of the Junior World Team, and the United States national team at the World Championships and World University Games. Jessica Yu graduated from Yale University summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa in English, 1987.
Personal life
She, her husband, acclaimed author, Mark Salzman, and their daughters Ava and Esme live in Los Angeles. Her father, Dr. Kou-ping Yu, an oncologist, was born in Shanghai. Her mother, Connie Young Yu, writer and historian, is a third-generation Californian. Jessica has an older sister, Jennifer Yu, a technical publications manager, and a younger brother, Martin Yu, an actor.
Selective filmography as director
