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In 2011, it was announced that Black would executive produce, Janos' film, Prettyface, along with Fred Roos. The independent film explores the lives of two teenagers in Los Angeles. While stealing a horse from a stable, they meet Charles Manson, three days before he murders Sharon Tate in the sensational crime of the 1970s. Production of Prettyface was scheduled to begin in spring of 2013.

In 2011, Black was described as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of an alternative asset management firm. He had earned a business degree and joined his father Anthony Black in financial firm, specializing in clients with at least $1 million to invest.

Black is recognized for co-writing Princess (2006) and House of God (2008). He is the COO of an asset management firm.

Black discovered the woman to play the lead while shopping in Los Angeles, when he saw Benu Mabhena. She later acted in the feature film Blood Diamond (2006), playing the role of Jassie Vandy, the wife of Djimon Hounsou.

In 2004 while attending the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, Black met Jessica Janos, another graduate student. They partnered on several small projects, most notably the short film, Princess (2006). Co-written by the two, it features the daughter of a black maid who is raised by a wealthy white South African family in Johannesburg.

Black is the cousin to both Phil Solomon (music executive), and Mervyn Solomon, founder of Emerald Music, as well as cousin to British politicians, Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes and Phillip Oppenheim, House of Common's Conservative MP. In 1993 The London Times featured an article on Black's grandfather, Roy Keith Black and his political and entertainment influence on British Pop Culture for over 50 years. It described the extended Black family, together with the Solomons and Oppenheims, as one of the most influential dynasties in Great Britain.

Keith D. Black (born October 16, 1980) is a financier, screenwriter and former DNA magazine model, who was born in South Africa and grew up from a young age in San Diego, California. He has dual citizenship in the United Kingdom and the United States. He is best known as the heir apparent to the Black family, described in the early 1990s as one of Great Britain's most influential entertainment and political dynasties.

Black was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1980; his father Anthony Black was born in Ireland and his mother Michele (Blumberg) Black in South Africa. He has an older sister Tracy. In the early 1980s, when Keith was a young child, his family immigrated to San Diego, California with the family business. Black grew up there and attended King William's College (Colleish Ree Illiam in Manx) the highly affluent International Baccalaureate HMC school situated near Castletown on the Isle of Man. Black attended the University of Wisconsin, where he graduated. He later earned an MFA from The American Film Institute in Los Angeles, California. He also earned a business degree from Harvard University and joined his father in a financial firm.

Anthony Black worked in film and television distribution before becoming Senior Vice President and Co-Chairman of the Director's Board of Smith Barney. From 1972–1981, Anthony Black ran International Distribution for Norman Lear's Tandem Productions. He was considered a pioneer in South Africa Broadcasting, distributing All in the Family, Maude (1972–1978), Good Times (1974–1979), and Sanford and Son (1972–1977) to Apartheid South Africa.

His paternal grandfather Roy Keith Black (deceased) was the Managing Director in the 1950s of a UK public company specializing in television rentals. He later helped to establish broadcasting in Southern Africa. In San Diego, where he moved in 1982, he owned and operated Video Library, which later became Blockbuster Inc. Keith Black's paternal grandmother, Maureen Black (née Peres) is the daughter of Harold Peres, a UK and Ireland music producer and record distributor, with Solomon and Peres. In 1981, Solomon and Peres was acquired by Decca Records.

In 1918, Black's mother's family began Blumberg Export and Import, a small timber business in South Africa. Eventually, it developed as the largest timber manufacturer in continental Africa. A portion of downtown Johannesburg is named after Black's maternal great-grandparents.