Keisha Rae Witherspoon
Lives and works in South Florida
Education
2004 BA, Florida State University, Creative Writing
Fellowships and Grants
2023 Sundance Women to Watch x Adobe Fellowship
2023 Sundance | Disney Fund
2023 Sundance Screenwriters Intensive
2023 HamptonsFilm Screenwriters Lab
2022 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar
2022 USA Fellow
2021 Lynn Shelton “Of A Certain Age” Grant
2020 Cinereach
2020 SFFilm Westridge Screenwriting Grant
2019 Sundance Talent Forum
2018 South Florida Cultural Consortium
Awards
2020 T, Berlinale, Golden Bear Best Short
2020 T, IndieGrits, Short Grit Best Short
2020 T, March on Washington Film Festival, Grand Prize
2020 T, Miami Film Festival, Knight Made in MIA Award
2019 T, BlackStar Film Festival, Best Short Audience Award
2019 T, New Orleans Film Festival, Best Short Audience Award, Breakthrough in Filmmaking Jury Award
Filmography
2019
T | Writer, Director
2018
1968<2018>2068 | Writer, Director
2014
Papa Machete | Co-writer, Co-producer
Festivals & Screenings
T
2024 The Barbican
2023 BAMPFA
2020-2023 The Criterion Channel
2023 Julia Stoschek Foundation
2023 The Gotham
2022 Sundance 40th Anniversary Shorts Program
2022 Starrett-Lehigh Building, Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure
2021 Metrograph
2020 New Directors/New Films, The Museum of Modern Art and Film at Lincoln Center
2020 REDCAT, CalArts
2020 Whitney Museum of American Art
2020 Berlinale
2020 AFI Fest
2020 IndieGrits Film Festival
2020 March on Washington Film Festival
2020 Atlanta Film Festival
2020 Miami Film Festival
2020 Palm Springs International Shorts Fest
2020 Camden International Film Festival
2019 Festival REGARD
2019 New Orleans Film Festival
2019 BlackStar Film Festival
1968<2018>2068
2020-2023 The Criterion Channel
2023 Pérez Art Museum Miami, PAMM TV Premiere
2022 Batalha Centro de Cinema, Porto
2021 Art and Culture Center/Hollywood
2019 MoMA PS1
2018 Ritter Art Gallery
Papa Machete
2015 National Geographic
2015 Brooklyn Museum
2015 Sundance Film Festival
2015 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
2015 Sheffield Doc Fest
2015 IndieGrits Film Festival
2015 Rooftop Films
2015 Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival
2014 Toronto International Film Festival
Press, Write-ups, Acknowledgements
2023 Film Quarterly, Spring 2023, Cover story, “Can’t No Grave Hold My Body Down”
2022 Seen Magazine, Issue 02, Cover story, Commissioned Essay
2021 Garage, Vice.com, “Keisha Rae Witherspoon's "T" Is a Way Through Collective Pain”
2020 Filmmaker Magazine, “25 New Faces of Independent Film”
2020 TheWrap, “ShortList 2020: How ‘T’ Finds a Vision of America in Black Rituals Surrounding Death”
2020 Miami NewTimes, Best of Miami: 2020 Best Film Director
Related Employment
2021 Director, Queen Sugar Season 6, Episode 7