Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu, last name pronounced Stewart ‘Teh Few,’ (Ngāpuhi/Te Rarawa) is an NZ based writer and director of Māori and Pākehā descent. In 2016 Josephine was one of the 9 Maori women filmmakers on Waru (2017), which premiered at TIFF. In 2018, Josephine was awarded the Māori Screen Excellence Award from the NZFC, alongside her fellow Waru filmmakers. Her short film Ani (2019) premiered at the Berlinale Film Festival and went on to screen at many international festivals including TIFF and ImagineNATIVE. Ani has since been acquisitioned by Fox Searchlight Shorts. Ani won Best Short Film by a Maori Director at Wairoa Film Festival, Best Film and Best Cinematography at Show Me Shorts. It was long listed for the Academy Awards Narrative Shorts section in 2020. Her latest short film, When We Were Kids (2020) won best short at NZIFF and has since screened at international festivals. Josephine's next feature film Running Barefoot was shortlisted twice for the Sundance Writers Lab in 2018 and 2019 and is currently in development. Josephine is an alumni of the 2020 TIFF Filmmakers Lab and awarded the Canada Goose Fellowship.

Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu will be introducing and doing Q+As after We Were Dangerous screenings in Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch. She will also be presenting Workshops in Auckland and Wellington.