Scott W. Kekama Amona

Scott W. Kekama Amona is a former educator turned award-winning Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) director, producer, and writer based in Honolulu, O'ahu, Hawai'i. He is a Sundance Native Shorts Lab, Good Pitch Hawai'i Fellow, and IllumiNative + Netflix Indigenous Producers Program fellow, who was announced as the 2024 Native Stand recipient. He is also one of eight Native Hawaiian writer-directors selected for the inaugural Makawalu feature film project with Hawai'i International Film Festival (HIFF) in collaboration with producers Sarah Kim and Brown Sugar Apple Grunt (BSAG) Productions. He is the associate producer on Alika Tengan's Moloka'i Bound (2024), premiering at the 50th Seattle International Film Festival and he is the cultural consultant/advisor on an upcoming episode of an Indigenous animated series. Kekama's award-winning short E Malama Pono, Willy Boy (EMPWB) made its world premiere at the 2022 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival; it has gone on to win numerous awards at film festivals like Hawai'i International Film Festival and Maoriland; and he is in script development for his first feature-length narrative as a co-writer and director titled Keke.