Anne Keen

Anne Keen is an accomplished journalist, documentarian and passionate storyteller. While working as a print and digital journalist in regional Australia, she began her path into documentary filmmaking. Her first solo project, Undermining a Community was selected for the 2020 Far South Film Festival. Shortly after, she co-founded Treechange Films, which completed its first documentary in January 2021, Nanna Power: The Story of the Gloucester Knitting Nannas. The same year, the short film was selected for both the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival and the Far South Film Festival. In early 2022, Treechange Films created the short film, Kelvin for Screenworks' Fearless Films Season 3.

Born in Canada, Anne spent time as part of the newsgathering team at Global Television in Toronto, and Entertainment Tonight in Hollywood, as well as working in production on numerous films and television shows in North America before moving to Australia in 2000. She has a Bachelor of Media and Communications with a major in Writing and Publishing and a Broadcast Journalism diploma.

In November 2022, Anne released her debut novel, Karamea House followed by her second novel, Fifty and Single in June 2024.