Crystal Kayiza
producer/director
Crystal Kayiza was raised in Oklahoma and is now a Brooklyn-based filmmaker. Named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film,” she is a recipient of the 2018 Sundance Ignite Fellowship and 2017 Jacob Burns Film Center Woman Filmmaker Fellowship. Her most recent short film, See You Next Time, aired on Starz and was an official selection of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. . Her film, Edgecombe, was an official selection of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, where it was acquired for distribution by the PBS’s series POV. Crystal received a Heartland Emmy Award in 2012 for her film, All That Remians, which profiles Boley, Oklahoma, one of the nation's last all-black towns.