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Halifax-based filmmaker Lulu Keating was born at Antigonish, N.S. in 1952. She attended St. Francis Xavier University 1969 to 1972 and in 1971 became a volunteer with Canadian Crossroads International in Zimbabwe. She also attended the Vancouver School of Art, Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, and the Summer Institute of Films, participating in motion picture studies programs. Her first film, an animated short entitled Lulu's Back in Town (1980) was part of a national tour and played at the Guttenburg Gallery in Washington. Keating formed her own production companies, Red Snapper Films Ltd. ca. 1983 and Mission Piece Productions Ltd. with Chris Zimmer in 1988. She wrote and directed her first feature film, Midday Sun, in 1989, based on her experiences in Zimbabwe. Keating has also worked with CBC Television and the National Film Board, and taught film workshops across Canada as well as a film production course in Oxford, England. She is active in a variety of organizations including the Canadian Film and Television Association, Atlantic Independent Film and Video Association, Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, Dramatists Cooperative, and the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative which she joined in 1980 and served as president, 1984-1986.