Keisha Knight

Keisha Knight is an educator, distributor, arts administrator, and programmer with a deep commitment to the moving image and its associates. Keisha uses her work across the fields of film, art, and education to support robust media ecosystems. Keisha holds a BA in Comparative Religion from Barnard College and an MA in Media Studies from Pratt Institute. As an educator Keisha has taught in classrooms from Palembang, Indonesia to Bennington, Vermont. She has served on numerous grant review panels, film festival juries, screening committees, and was a programmer for the New York African Film Festival and the Maryland Film Festival. Through her distribution work at Sentient.Art.Film, Keisha has had the honor of working very closely with established and emerging filmmakers, moving image artists, and industry professionals from around the world. Keisha is currently Director of IDA Funds & Enterprise Program at the International Documentary Association in Los Angeles, CA.