Based in Te Whanganui-ā-Tara (Wellington, New Zealand), Libby Witheford-Smith graduated film school in 2022, having written the student short Old Haunt. This went on to win awards, including Best Next Gen Short at Melbourne Women in Film Festival.
Their next project, a funded documentary about bipolar, won her Best Māori Filmmaker at the New Zealand Youth Film Festival, the same project also being nominated for Best Directing of a Documentary in the NZ Web Fest.
Currently digitising archive videos for work and studying creative writing for play, Libby's passion for story, history and language runs deep and true, almost acting as a navigational tool in her life.