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Keisha Rae Witherspoon

Keisha Rae Witherspoon is a Jamaican-American fiction and documentary filmmaker. Her work is driven by interests in science, spirituality, fantasy, and documenting the unseen and unheralded nuances of African diasporic folks. Her film T won the 2019 audience award for best short at BlackStar Film Festival, and went on to win the Berlinale Golden Bear in 2020. She is cofounder of Third Horizon, a Miami-based Caribbean filmmaking collective that stages the annual Third Horizon Film Festival.