Crystal Kayiza

Crystal Kayiza

Biography

Crystal Kayiza was raised in Oklahoma and is a Brooklyn-based documentary filmmaker. Named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film,” her work focuses on pursuing more nuanced storytelling about the African Diaspora. She is a recipient of the 2018 Sundance Ignite Fellowship and 2017 Jacob Burns Film Center Woman Filmmaker Fellowship.

Uppsala Internationella Kortfilmfestival

Director

Documentaries
2024

Photographer (series)

 

Campbell Addy: Feeling Seen (E04)

2019

See You Next Time

2018

Edgecombe

Short
2022

Rest Stop

Screenwriter

Short
2022

Rest Stop

Producer

Documentaries
2018

Edgecombe