Keisha Rae Witherspoon

Keisha Rae Witherspoon

Biography

Keisha Rae Witherspoon is an independent filmmaker currently based in South Florida. Her work is driven by interests in science, speculative fiction and fantasy, as well as documenting the unseen and unheralded nuances of diasporic peoples. She previously wrote and produced the award-winning short film Papa Machete, about the esoteric martial art of haitian machete fencing. It had its world premiere at TIFF 2014 and its U.S. premiere at Sundance Film Festival 2015, She is a co-founder of Third Horizon, a Miami-based caribbean filmmaking collective.

El Festival Internacional de Cine de Guanajuato

Screenwriter

Documentaries
2014

Papa Machete

Short
2019

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Producer

Documentaries
2014

Papa Machete

Director

Series
2021

Queen Sugar

 

They Would Bloom and Welcome You (S06E07)

Short
2019

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