[EN] Keely Meechan (Whakatōhea) is a writer and director from Aotearoa, New Zealand. Her debut short Nancy From Now On won the Creative New Zealand Emerging Talent Award at Whānau Mārama NZ International Film Festival and the Audience Choice Award at imagineNATIVE, the world’s leading indigenous film festival. She directed the personal short documentary Fast Eddie, about her fathers battle with a terminal illness, multiple episodes of Waiata Anthems, celebrating Māori music and language, and received NZ On Air funding for Allgoods, a docu-series exploring indigenous health issues for TVNZ+. Her sophomore New Zealand Film Commission funded short film, Margie, is now entering the festival circuit.