Award winning Filmmaker Kecia J.Benson is known for her creative and eclectic cinematic style.  From Mount Vernon, NY, she landed her first freelancing gig on actress/director Azariah Gunn’s feature debut Spare Change. Soon  after was introduced to guerrilla-style filmmaking and worked with profound directors like Spike Lee, Tim Story, Charles Stone III and productions like Sesame Street, Apollo Live, Gossip Girl, Red Hook Summer, Love and Hip Hop Hollywood, Broad City, and many more.

 

In 2010, Benson debuted her first short film UNIDENTIFIED a suspenseful thriller about a mysterious man redefining himself. Unidentified was featured in 2011 at the Reel Sisters of Diaspora Film Festival. 

 

In 2012, Benson released Beale Street Blues a short controversial documentary about struggling African-American blues artists in Memphis, TN. Beale Street Blues was screened at BAM’s New Voices in Black Cinema in 2013. 

 

Kecia’s Latest and most talked about film KENYA'S EYES is a dramatic and gritty film centered around a young  girl who battles with self-identity screened at the 2014 Langston Hughes, BET Hollywood Indie Night, Sista’s Doin It for Themselves, and  2014 Bronze Lens FF. 

 

Kecia is releasing her 1st Feature Documentary THE UPTOWN COMEDY CLUB: THE BIRTH OF HIP-HOP COMEDY tells the story of all the comedians who graced the club’s stage. As one of very few places for new black comedians to touch the mic, in the late 80s and 90s, the Uptown Comedy Club experienced countrywide acclaim through its very own nationally syndicated television show on Fox 5 in NYC, popularizing jokes such as the famous “Yo Momma” joke that took the 90s by storm. This documentary features interviews with, Tracy Morgan of SNL & NBC's 30 Rock, JB Smoove of ‘Real Husbands of Hollywood’, “Curb Your Enthusiasm”, Flex Alexander of UPN’s “One on One”, Jim Breuer of HALF BAKED, Kim Whitley of “Raising Whitley” and “Sparks”, and more.