Keith Wilson

Lecturer, Entertainment & Media Studies
ABOUT

Keith Wilson is a director, creative producer, and visual artist whose work has been exhibited at Sundance, Berlinale, South by Southwest, Hot Docs, the U.S. National Gallery of Art, documenta14, and the Museum of Modern Art. He is a 2021 Sundance Institute Creative Producing Fellow as the producer for the feature-length documentary “I Didn’t See You There.” For his in-progress feature film, the “Untitled Frank Moore Project,” he was a 2019 North Points Fellow and a 2018 BAVC Mediamakers Fellow. Wilson’s short documentary film “The Tree” premiered at the 2017 DOC NYC Film Festival and screened at MoMA’s 2019 Doc Fortnight program. He received his Master of Fine Arts in Film Production from the University of Texas-Austin, where he was a University and Jesse Jones Fellow.

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.

AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
  • 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
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In the News

Grady College announces 2023 faculty and staff award recipients

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2022 in Review: Research & Expertise

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Keith Wilson to premiere new film ‘I Didn’t See You There’ at Ciné

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Keith Wilson awarded Sundance documentary grant

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Keith Wilson selected as a 2021 Sundance Creative Producing Fellow

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