Biography

Kweighbaye Kotee is a writer, film producer, TV host, actress, and entrepreneur. As the founder of the Bushwick Film Festival in Brooklyn and Starlit Pics, an LA-based production company, her film industry expertise has led to speaking invitations at prestigious events and institutions like TEDx talk, JPMorgan Chase, SAG-AFTRA, Google, Société Générale, Blackstone, and various universities. Her global impact includes co-producing a Un-backed women's peace film festival in Liberia and leading a Masterclass on film festival strategy in South America. Kotee's commitment to empowering women of color and underrepresented voices in the industry has garnered her recognition in a national Delta and Popsugar Campaign and was awarded by Lucy Liu for her groundbreaking work.

Born in Liberia, West Africa, Kotee moved to the U.S. during the Liberian civil war. She attended public school in Newark, received a Wight Foundation scholarship to Blair Academy for high school, and graduated from NYU with a B.S. in Media, Culture, and Communications.

Currently, she is producing multiple sourced from BFF Alumni, and working on her first feature film, Saturn Returns - a compelling journey of an astronomer who travels to her late grandmother's West African village to seek guidance for a major life decision.
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