MY BIO

Kweighbaye Kotee is a Liberian-American, film producer and writer. She attended public school in Newark, received a Wight Foundation scholarship to attend Blair Academy, and graduated from NYU with a B.S. in Media, Culture, and Communications. Developing creative platforms that equally include women and other underrepresented voices is a personal mission of hers and a significant component of her projects and businesses including Bushwick Film Festival, Bushwick Film Institute, and Local Citizens where she works with corporate companies to build internal programs that support diverse creators and low income-communities. She has delivered a TEDx talk about the need for diversity in Hollywood, moderated and spoken on panels about filmmaking, entrepreneurship, and diversity in entertainment at JPMorgan Chase, Google, Société Générale, Blackstone, and universities including NYU, Pratt University, North Western University and the University of Denver. In 2019, Kweighbaye co-produced a women’s peace film festival in West Africa sponsored by the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund featuring documentaries made by local Liberian Women. She has been featured on NBC, Fox, NY1, Huff Post, and AMNY and was featured in a national campaign by PopSugar and Delta Airlines for her work in putting women of color behind the camera. In 2021, Kweighbaye was recognized by Lucy Lui, for her groundbreaking work in Film & Entertainment.

CURRENT FILM PROJECTS

OUR HOLOOCKS

DIRECTED by Raginee Nath and Chinmoy Sonowa

Produced by Gary Byung-seok KAM and Kweighbaye Kotee

Sidhanta, a fisherman, has been fighting to protect the Hoolock Gibbons, India's fast-vanishing ape species, in his village. However, this endearing tale of human-animal coexistence is threatened when a nearby oilfield disrupts the delicate ecosystem and his relationship with the Hoolock Gibbons

Set in India I Post-Production

SIA RETURSN (working title)

Written by Kweighbaye Kotee

A pregnant Liberian-American astronomer, haunted by dreams of life before war and overwhelmed by work and family obligations, returns to her late grandmother’s village seeking guidance and meaning.

*Artwork by Jebet Naava

Set in Brooklyn and Liberia I Development

 

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