Wilson

Keith Wilson is a producer, director and artist whose films have screened internationally including Sundance, the Berlinale, the U.S. National Gallery of Art, documenta14 and the Museum of Modern Art. He is the producer of Joonam (Sundance 2023) and I Didn’t See You There (2022), which won the Directing Award for U.S. Documentary at Sundance, the Grand Jury Prize at Full Frame, and a Film Independent Spirit Award. His live documentary performance Moore for Sale (2023) has appeared at film festivals, museums, and conferences internationally including the Museum of the Moving Image, the International Documentary Festival, Amsterdam (IDFA) and the International Documentary Association's Getting Real conference. Keith's projects have been supported by the Ford Foundation, the Sundance Institute, NBC News Studios and California Humanities. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences and he has received fellowships from the Sundance Institute, the Bay Area Video Coalition, Points North Institute and Yaddo.

EDUCATION

• MFA, Film Production, University of Texas-Austin
• BA, History and Sociology, Texas Christian University

TEACHING SPECIALTIES

Wilson teaches introduction to production and cinematography courses.

• 2021 Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program Production Grant
• 2021 Sundance Institute Creative Producing Fellowship
• 2021 CNN & Points North Institute American Stories Grant
• 2021  Points North Institute Fellowship
• 2020 California Humanities Documentary Project Grant
• 2020 NBCUniversal Original Storytellers Fellowship
• 2020 Doc Society New Perspectives Fund Development Grant, Doc Society
• 2019 Points North Institute Fellowship
• 2018 Monroe Research Fellowship, New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, Tulane University
• 2018 National Mediamaker Fellowship, Bay Area Video Coalition
• 2015 Canon Filmmaker Award, Film Independent
• 2014 SFFILM Kennith Ranin Filmmaking Grant