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Keko was one of the seven founders of "New Albania" Film Studio (Albanian: Kinostudio "Shqiperia e Re"), present day "Albafilm-Tirana". She was the first female director and directed some 25 different movies between 1952 and 1984 including the 1975 film, Beni Walks by Himself and Tomka and His Friends, both awarded at the Giffoni International Film Festival. Her films were generally targeted toward younger audiences but contemporary critics praise her "sensitive approach to her material, a technical facility outstripping her contemporaries and a highly original voice".[1]
In 1950, Keko was one of six Albanians, including her future husband Endri Keko, sent to study at the Moscow Central Studio for Documentary Film. Her education was focused on film editing.[2] Keko edited 140 films, mostly newsreels and documentaries, in the first seventeen years of her career.[4] She participated in the opening of Kinostudio by handing a pair of scissors to Enver Hoxha.[5]
Keko's directorial debut, Spoiled Mimoza (Mimoza llastica), was made in 1973.[4]
Her son Teodor Keko was born in 1958.[5] Keko retired from filmmaking in 1984.[4] Her husband and son died before her in 1989 and 2002 respectively.[6]
