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Museums on Us, a Bank of America Arts and Culture access program recently featured, Keith Nixon, Filmmaker, Author and Educator as their guest lecturer. Nixon, an accomplished professional with more than 10 years of multi-disciplinary achievement in screenwriting, education, filmmaking, and crew management. Mr. Nixon received his Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications from Rust College at Holly Springs, Mississippi. Nixon is also a member of the Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Incorporated.
Nixon arrived fresh from the Sundance Film Festival, spoke with invited corporate professionals about the importance of improved race relations, diversity and inclusion.
Nixon earned his first MFA in Screenwriting from Spalding University in Louisville, KY. While pursuing that degree, he became a script analyst for Hart/Lunsford Pictures also in Louisville, KY. He also served as an Assistant English Professor and a high school English Teacher. He developed the student winners of Kentucky’s New Voices Young Playwright Competition in 2013, and facilitated achievement of the highest On-Demand Writing test scores in the history of Valley High School. Mr. Nixon was recently selected to be Talent Liaison/Assistant Manager for the Sundance Film Festival 2016. He is currently a candidate for a second Master of Fine Arts degree, this time in Directing from DePaul University. His thesis film, Verses is currently set to film in Chicago, IL in the spring of 2016. Upon graduation in June, Mr. Nixon plans to continue making films that are for and about Chicago. One of his goals is to launch a program (in his native Bronzeville on Chicago’s south side) for the Cinema Arts that will focus on training the next generation of young black filmmakers.
