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Veialu is a writer, director & television creative producer.  Sydney based.  Aotearoa New Zealand raised.  Papua New Guinea born.

Leaving her ancestral homeland as a child had a profound effect on her spiritually which is why Veialu is passionate about telling thought-provoking, female-driven stories that explore identity, history, and underrepresented females finding their voice in the world.

​Veialu's award-winning animated and live-action short films, BLUE WILLOW and BUTTERFLY/BATAPLAI, have screened at numerous festivals including Berlinale, imagineNATIVE, Maōriland, Mill Valley, Hawai`i International Film Fest, and more.

On the TV side, she has 15+ years of experience as an award-winning senior creative producer, copywriter, and promo director working with Australia's largest free-to-air commercial TV networks, NINE and TEN.  While living in India, she also directed doco-style shorts for the nonprofit organization, MEWSIC.


Veialu was awarded the 2023 ARMED WITH A CAMERA FELLOWSHIP and was a mentor for the 2024 cohort in Los Angeles.  Her screenplay, THE DEFIANT ONE, made The Black List's 2021 CAPE LIST.  

 

Her passion for Indigenous cinema has led Veialu to be a co-programmer of the 2024 PACIFIC CINEWAVES short film program at the 40th Annual VC Film Festival and a co-programmer of the preliminary selection round of FestPAC 2024.

Veialu is an alum of Berlinale Talents, the International Institute of Modern Letters, and Aotearoa New Zealand's national drama school, Toi Whakaari, where she did a master's degree in theatre directing.

When she’s not watching movies, Veialu is making blanket forts for her cat to play in and writing her film blog @hollywood.diversity

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NewFilmmakers LA interview, MAY 2024

I respectfully acknowledge all Traditional Indigenous Custodians of the lands, waterways, and skies.  I recognize that I live on land originally and still inhabited and cared for by the Gadigal People of the Eora Nationand pay my deepest respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging.

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