Kerri Garrett is a filmmaker, producer, and multidisciplinary artist from Columbus, Ohio, based in Atlanta, Georgia. Her work explores Black life across the diaspora, blending narrative storytelling, movement, and community-rooted production to examine personal and collective experience, grounded in queer perspectives. A proud Clark Atlanta University alum with formal training in theatre and dance, Kerri’s foundation in performance continues to shape her directorial voice. Her work is attentive to rhythm, physicality, and emotional timing, allowing her to craft films that move through the body as much as through language.

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She is the director and producer of A Westside Love Story and co-director and co-writer of Bleached, winner of the 2025 NAACP Cinematic Shorts Competition. Her five-part dance film series Longshot: Atlanta aired on REVOLT and TelfarTV. Her films have received support from organizations including Gilead, Emory University’s COMPASS Initiative, and Fulton County Arts & Culture, and have screened at festivals including the Pan African Film Festival and the Vancouver Queer Film Festival.

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Through her company, House of Productions, she develops narrative films and produces branded storytelling campaigns across culture and community. In 2025, Kerri served as a GLAAD Ambassador at the American Black Film Festival and as a member of GLAAD’s Community Consulting Group, contributing to the development of the HIV Storytelling Playbook, a resource supporting more accurate portrayals of people living with HIV in film and television. She is currently in post-production on her short film Coolest Girls in the Country Club, executive produced by NAACP Studios.

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