Keisha Rae Witherspoon is an independent filmmaker currently based in Miami. Her work is driven by interests in science, speculative fiction, and fantasy, as well as documenting the unseen and unheralded nuances of diasporic peoples. In 2018, she was awarded the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship, the largest regional, government-sponsored artist grant in the country. Witherspoon is the Creative Director of Third Horizon, a Caribbean artist collective she co-founded in 2013, whose production work has garnered critical acclaim with acceptance into numerous film festivals, including Sundance Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Sheffield Doc/Fest, and many more around the world. The collective hosts their flagship event, Third Horizon Film Festival, in Miami annually, as well as satellite festivals throughout the Caribbean.