
Keisha Rae Witherspoon
Directing
Biography
Keisha Rae Witherspoon is a Jamaican-American independent filmmaker currently based in South Florida.
Known For

The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
Moonlight

The film profiles artist and choreographer Rosie Herrera, and features excerpts from her solo show Cookie’s Kid. It's one of ten short films that make up the Miami artist documentary compilation project titled I’ve Never Not Been From Miami, commissioned by WPBT2 South Florida PBS, with support from Knight Arts and the David & Francie Horvitz Family Foundation.
Rosie

A film crew follows three grieving participants of Miami’s annual T Ball, where folks assemble to model R.I.P. t-shirts and innovative costumes designed in honor of their dead.
T

Drenched in the heat, spirit and landscape of South Florida, Swimming in Your Skin Again celebrates the spiritual feminine and coming of age. Guided by female inspirations we tour the ritual anchorages of life in and around Miami: the Catholic church, the swamp, the backyard, the water.
Swimming in Your Skin Again

Papa Machete is an intimate account of 'Professor' Alfred Avril, one of the world's only known masters of the esoteric martial art of Haitian machete fencing, known in Creole as 'Tire Machet'. The film documents a proud, but aging man's devotion to his heritage and his desire to continue tradition.
Papa Machete

Drawing on literary excerpts from the book 'Black Quantum Futurism: Theory and Practice,' 1968 < 2018 > 2068 is a meditation on cyclical and linear time theory, memory, and trauma.
1968 < 2018 > 2068
Ev is an outcast Miami hustler who believes his mother was abducted by aliens when he was a boy. When a mysterious woman descends on his community sermonizing about extraterrestrial salvation, he finds new purpose, which is soon threatened by a disgraced former government agent and a looming hurricane.