Keith Miller km96@nyu.edu • see a pdf of the CV
I am a filmmaker, curator, professor, and artist. In 2015 I was named a Guggenheim Fellow and have been awarded a Jerome Film and Video grant and a Rooftop Production grant and an award for Excellence in Teaching from The Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU.
I am currently working on a new movie, Lucas and Iris Save the World. The synopsis: A pair of fourteen year old best friends embark on an impossible trek to seek out justice against an environmental criminal through an act of eco-sabotage.
The feature film Five Star premiered at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival where it won Best Editing for a Narrative Feature. It had its international premiere at the Venice Biennale and went on to play numerous festivals including Thessaloníki, Cairo, Rio De Janeiro, Seattle, New Orleans and many more.
My first feature film, Welcome to Pine Hill, was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at Slamdance Film Festival 2012, the Grand Jury Prize at the Atlanta Film Festival, the FIPRESCI Grand Jury Prize for New American Cinema at the Seattle International Film Festival, a Special Jury Prize for Performance at the Sarasota Film Festival and an Honorable Mention at the Nashville Film Festival.
Both feature films were made in collaboration with the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective of which I have been a member for over a decade.
I am the co-creator and director of the comedy series Brooklynification (with Christopher Poindexter), looking at gentrification in Brooklyn and commissioned by BRIC TV.
In 2022 This Much We Know, Directed by Lily Henderson, premiered at Camden International Film Festoval and DOCNYC. It was produced by me with Joey Carey. This Much We Know has received grants from Cinereach and the Jerome Foundation.
I have been the curator of The Gallatin Galleries at NYU’s Gallatin School for Individualized Study since the gallery was opened in 2008. Prior to that I was the curator at the SAC Gallery atStony Brook University. Since curating my first show in 1999 I have curated over 40 thematic show, several group shows and worked with students extensively on festivals, competitions and solo shows.
My work as an artist has been shown in galleries around the world including Mexico, Australia and the US. I am a part-time professor at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where I was awarded the Gallatin School Adviser of Distinction Award in 2022 and the Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2014. I teach courses in the theory and practice of art, curating, and filmmaking, such as The Craft and Art of Directing for the Screen, The Pleasures and Perils of Contemporary Exhibitions, From Script to Screen: Making The Short Film, and others. Look at the amazing work of some of my students over the years!