Kweighbaye Kotee

Creator Bushwick Film Festival and Bushwick Film Institute

Kweighbaye Kotee—a Liberian born, Brooklyn based entrepreneur, writer, director & producer—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 and significant component of her projects and businesses including Bushwick Film Festival and Bushwick Film Institute. She has been featured on NBC, Fox, NY1, Huff Post, AMNY, Brooklyn Magazine and was the subject of Delta Air Lines and Popsugar’s national campaign about women making positive impacts in their communities.
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