John Fitzgerald Keitel

About John Fitzgerald Keitel

John is an award-winning producer, director, cinematographer, and editor whose work has screened at festivals from Sundance to Berlin and aired on the BBC, Sundance Channel, MTV, HBO, Showtime, A&E, and BET, among others. Past projects include the Telluride Film Festival hit Prodigal Sons for the Sundance Channel and two documentaries with Drew Barrymore, including The Best Place to Start for MTV. He is the writer-director of the award-winning feature Defying Gravity, as well the editor of Latter Days. His documentary, An All-American Story was an official Sundance selection and received the Gold Plaque at the Chicago International Film Festival, as well as the David L. Wolper Achievement Award from the Independent Documentary Association. He has been a contributor to Emmy-winning Current TV and has produced and edited many behind-the-scenes specials for Hollywood films, including: Ali, As Good As It Gets, Charlie’s Angels, Big Daddy, Everest, and Stuart Little. John has recently completed Justly Married, a feature documentary spanning over 11 years following seven same sex couples on their journeys to marriage equality. John is a graduate of Stanford University (AB, Human Biology & Drama) and the USC School of Cinematic Arts (MA, Cinema-Television Production).

Experience

1. Founder

   Weareyou.Info

   Mar 2019 — Present · West Hollywood, CA, US

   weareYOU connects the next generation of college-goers with current students and graduates from colleges everywhere by providing access to their stories about what the college choice journey can be like for anyone.They’re the “we” in weareYOU, and these are their stories about who they were and what applying to college was like for them because no one should have to go it alone.

Education

• University of Oxford

  Stanford at Oxford (Magdelan College), Hilary Term, Tutorials in Human Physiology & British Dramatic Literature

  1985 — 1985

• University of Southern California

  MA, Cinematic Arts

  1988 — 1994

• Stanford University

  AB, Human Biology & Drama

  1982 — 1986

• Northwestern University

  National High School Institute (Cherub Program), Theater Arts

  1981 — 1981

• Lake Forest Academy

  High School Diploma

  1978 — 1982

Skills

• Final Cut Studio
• Shooting
• Documentaries
• Pre-Production
• Television
• Producing
• Dvd Studio Pro
• Digital Media
• Documentary
• Hdv
• New Media
• Script Editing
• Video
• Narrative
• Film
• Video Production
• Camera Operation
• Storytelling
• Motion Pictures
• Entertainment
• Short Films
• Independent Film
• Final Draft
• Videography
• Stories
• Post Production
• Cinematography
• Commercials
• Final Cut Pro
• International Production
• Film Production
• Promos
• Social Media
• Avid Media Composer
• Feature Films
• Camera
• Music Videos
• Film Festivals
• Video Editing
• Directing