Keri Pickett

AFS Film: Finding Her Beat

Keri Pickett (Co-Director, Director of Photography, Editor) is a producer, director and photographer. She is the Co-Director of FINDING HER BEAT (88 minutes, 2022) which premiered in the fall of 2022. FIRST DAUGHTER AND THE BLACK SNAKE, (94 minutes, 2017) was selected by the Marfa Film Festival, the Native Women in Film and Red Nation Film Festival, and the Portland Eco Film Festival winning “Best MN Made Documentary Feature” from the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, a Red Nation Film Festival Courage Award, the Portland EcoFilm Festival Best Feature Film Award and the Frozen River Film Festival Minnesota Documentary Award. It is distributed by Virgil Films & Entertainment. Her first documentary feature film THE FABULOUS ICE AGE, (2013, 72 minutes), also distributed by Virgil Films & Entertainment, is the winner of multiple awards and a “Netflix Original” distributed in ten languages for five years. Pickett also directs short films and music videos including NO MORE PIPELINE BLUES (ON THIS LAND WHERE WE BELONG.) Pickett is a member of Film Fatales and is Pickett is also a photographer whose work is in museum collections such as the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Art. Pickett is the author of the award winning books LOVE IN THE 90s, (Warner Books, 1995) won the Best Photo Book award from American Photography and it had a first printing of 150,000 copies and was also published in Japanese. FAERIES (Aperture, 2000) was awarded the Lambda Literary Award, Best Art Book, 2000) and SAVING BODY & SOUL (Shaw Books, 2004). She started producing documentary feature films at age 50.