Didi Beck* is a filmmaker based in Jamaica, where she was born and raised. Her main creative interests lie in the unseen world: the occult, magic, metaphysics, ghosts, history, myths.

Before moving back to Kingston, Didi studied and lived in Los Angeles for almost a decade. She holds a masters degree in journalism and a bachelor’s degree in fine art from the University of Southern California, and was a communication fellow at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) from 2016 – 2018. 

She won the Los Angeles Press Club’s National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award for “Best Profile” in 2017. She made a short documentary earlier that year about the pottery studio at the center of the US's aesthetic craft movement.

Since returning to Jamaica in 2018, Didi has written about Jamaican myths for the national newspaper, the Jamaica Observer. She’s reported on air about queer feminist pirates in historic Port Royal and argued the nuances of pride for the BBC. She produced two international commercials for Virgin Holidays in Jamaica and Antigua.

Her work as a photographer and artist has been published in the Los Angeles Times, LACMA, The FADER, The FACE, Al Jazeera, The Carvery and Billboard.

In 2020 she won a national film grant and made a short narrative film about a psychic girl living with her ancestral ghosts (High Strangeness). Didi’s second short film, White Rum for the Widow, follows a duppy-skeptic bartender as she comes face to face with the ghost of an old patron. It premiered in November 2021.

Didi is currently pursuing an MFA in directing at the American Film Institute (AFI) Conservatory. She will graduate in 2024.

* pronounced “diddy”