Keith Fleetwood

Keith Fleetwood is a British filmmaker and musician, born in Hamilton, Bermuda, and he grew up in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. He moved to Flint Michigan (USA) at the age of 15, where he got into theatre. Keith attended the University of Michigan-Flint as a biology and theatre major, and graduated in 1997. Keith is a composer and songwriter, and plays guitar (classical, rock and jazz), piano, bass, drums, mandolin, banjo, saxophone and flute. Keith was hired at a theme park, the Historical Crossroads Village, as a musician at the opera house, and as a "train robber" where he got to ride horses and shoot real guns with blanks and use fake blood. Keith then worked for PBS as a cameraman on the Michigan program "Passing Through" which interviewed celebrities. Keith graduated from film school in Orlando Florida, and worked on several indie movies and music videos, and worked with a local TV show that interviewed celebrities. Keith directed the short films "A Moment To Change", "Alien Suspects" and "Gravel Road". His team entered the 2004 Open Reel 36-hour competition sponsored by Universal Studios with their submission "False Vibrations", and swept each category of the awards with Keith winning Best Original Score. Keith worked a season on "Kitchen Nightmares" with chef Gordon Ramsey, and moved back to Flint at the end of 2007. He continues to play guitar and keyboards with his rock band "Fiction", and produces music videos with his company "Fiction Film & Music" (aka Fixtion), and occasionally does music with a live theatrical production.