Kweighbaye Kotee is a Liberian-American, film producer and writer. Her filmography includes Bushwick Diaries, Hello Sickness and Indie Cinema New York: ICNY (2015). 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 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.
