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Gaylene Preston Productions Archives Page 1

1. Notes
2. Referencing Code For Films
3. Film List
4. Timeline
5. Referencing Code For File Boxes

1. Notes

Timeline
The Timeline is incomplete; and highlights the period up to and including Perfect Strangers (34). There are some ** marking comments/necessary alterations on the electronic files where additions can also be made.

Film List & Boxes
1. We have given each film a number (except Ophelia and a couple of commercials): see Referencing Code For Films.

2. All material found at Blair Street for films up to and including (34) Perfect Strangers was annotated and filed.

3. The boxes are arranged as shown on the list inside each box, and items are arranged alphabetically within files.

4. Not every item noted in the Film List is present in the boxes. The Film List – up to War Stories - includes items from every source we could find: National Bibliography, theses, GP’s physical files. We have not viewed some “GP archive” items, simply transcribed their details e.g. from a thesis list.

5. We have prioritised some items as “Key References” and labeled others as “Publicity”. However, it has not always been possible to differentiate absolutely; we tended to define printed material as a key reference if it provided analysis of a film or its making, or biographical information not included elsewhere.

2. Referencing Code For Films

All dates when film first screened

3. Film List

#1 The Animals and The Lawn Mower (1972)

Standard 8 mm colour separate sound
20 mins

Film Archive Ref: F28036

The story of a wonderful place where everyone lived happily and the grass never needed cutting, being disrupted by a travelling lawn mower salesman.

GP: “Became a film maker when my friend, Suzanne, who had shot the film, eloped, leaving me with a pile of little yellow film cans and an overenthusiastic drama group anxious to see their film.”

Key References
Gaylene Preston Curriculum Vitae [“B”] nd. (ends 1983)
Preston, G [Narrative] Self-pencilled 10pp document (ends 1978) Shepard, D Writing a Woman Film Maker’s Life and Work: A Biofilmography of Gaylene Preston (1992) MA Thesis University of Auckland 39-40

Distribution
Screened on standard 8mm projector/old Faregraph (?) tape recorder in the psychiatrists’ library Fulbourn Hospital Cambridge and to the Royal College of Psychiatrists Annual Conference in Cambridge 1974.

Publicity
Beryl – one of the actors – striding round the corridors of Fulbourn, thrusting herself into the faces of unsuspecting visitors and asking in a very loud voice “Have you seen my film?”


#2 Draw Me A Circle (1973)

Standard 8 mm colour sound stripe
30 mins

Film Archive Ref: F80997

Documentary about art therapy with severely handicapped patients at Cell Barnes Hospital, London. Commissioned by the hospital’s nurse training school.

GP: “I shot it, lit it, recorded sound, edited it, and ruined it with an overwritten commentary.”

Key References
Gaylene Preston Curriculum Vitae [“B”] nd. (ends 1983)
Preston, G [Narrative] Self-pencilled 10pp document (ends 1978) Shepard, D Writing a Woman Film Maker’s Life and Work: A Biofilmography of Gaylene Preston (1992) MA Thesis University of Auckland 4

Distribution
Used by Dr Elizabeth Greene in her teaching about art therapy on St Albans School of Art Dip Art therapy post-graduate course.

Publicity


#3 Mojak Kojak (1975)

Super 8 mm colour (sound stripe)
12 mins

Film Archive Ref: 28037

Funded by British Film Institute – Education Fund.
Simple sight gag cops and robber story. End product of experimental drama with deaf students at Brixton College of Further Education.

GP: “By carefully building the soundtrack, profoundly deaf students were able to communicate in beautifully flowing sentences – an aim that for them was most important as they were educated without extensive use of sign.”

Key References
Gaylene Preston Curriculum Vitae [“B”] nd. (ends 1983)
Preston, G [Narrative] Self-pencilled 10pp document (ends 1978)
Shepard, D Writing a Woman Film Maker’s Life and Work: A Biofilmograpy of Gaylene Preston (1992) MA Thesis University of Auckland 4

Distribution
Screened to the student body at Brixton College of Further Education 1975

Publicity


4. Creeps on the Crescent (1976)

Super 8 mm colour (sound stripe)
20 mins

Film Archive Ref: No

Funded by British Film Institute – inadvertently.
A woman walks along the road, hears a piano and is lured into this house by an inexplicable force...

GP: “Our flat’s … Christmas movie.” Made with Nick Kavanagh.

Key References
Gaylene Preston Curriculum Vitae [“B”] nd. (ends 1983)
Preston, G [Narrative] Self-pencilled 10pp document (ends 1978)
Shepard, D Writing a Woman Film Maker’s Life and Work: A Biofilmography of Gaylene Preston (1992) MA Thesis University of Auckland 42

Distribution
Screened many times on the wall of 17 Stockwell Park Crescent.
Screened 1977 Red Mole Cabaret, Carmen’s Balcony, Wellington

Publicity


5. [Whose School?] (1977)

1/2” high density b & w videotape
20 mins

Film Archive Ref: No

director: GP
camera: Mike Biko

GP: “About community use of the Beresford Street Primary School, where classes for Pacific Island parents learning English language were included alongside their children’s usual primary school activities.” Commissioned by Darcey Nicholas through the Auckland WEA outreach programme.

Key References
Gaylene Preston Curriculum Vitae [“B”] nd. (ends 1983)
Preston, G [Narrative] Self-pencilled 10pp document (ends 1978) Shepard, D Writing a Woman Film Maker’s Life and Work: A Biofilmography of Gaylene Preston (1992) MA Thesis University of Auckland 58

Distribution
This film was shown to try and help save the school fromdemolition. Ultimately unsuccessful in stopping the bulldozers.

Publicity


6. Toheroamania (1978)

16mm colour reversal
12 mins

Film Archive Ref: No

director: GP
producer: John O’Shea
camera: Rory O’Shea
sound: John Van Der Reyden
editor: John Kiley

Pacific Films/ TVNZ production

The story of the local toheroa season, told from the toheroa’s point of view. For the Shoreline series.

Key References
Gaylene Preston Curriculum Vitae [“B”] nd. (ends 1983)
Preston, G [Narrative] Self-pencilled 10pp document (ends 1978)
Shepard, D Writing a Woman Film Maker’s Life and Work: A Biofilmography of Gaylene Preston (1992) MA Thesis University of Auckland 60-63Distribution

GP: “Screened February 1978 on TVNZ’s Channel 1, unfortunately during a massive North island failure of the national grid. This power cut means I have never seen this film in colour completed, as we edited on black and white dupe print off the reversal original.”

Publicity
Listener listing Sunday February ? 1978


7. Dat’s Show Biz (1978)

16 mm colour reversal
10 mins

Film Archive Ref: No

director: GP
producer: John O’Shea
camera: Rory O’Shea
sound: John Van der Reyden
editor: John Kiley
Pacific Films/ TVNZ productionIn the style of the ‘Look at Life’ documentaries of the 1950s, a light-hearted look at the animal hospital, Napier Marineland. For the Shoreline series.

Key References
Gaylene Preston Curriculum Vitae [“B”] nd. (ends 1983)
Preston, G [Narrative] Self-pencilled 10pp document (ends 1978)
Shepard, D Writing a Woman Film Maker’s Life and Work: A Biofilmography of Gaylene Preston (1992) MA Thesis University of Auckland 60-63

Distribution
Channel 1 TVNZ

Publicity
Listener listing Sunday February ?


8. Water the Way You Want It (1978)

16 mm colour reversal
10 mins

Film Archive Ref: No

director: GP
producer: John O’Shea
camera: Rory O’Shea
sound: John Van der Reyden
editor: John Kiley
Pacific Films/ TVNZ productionWater classification explained. For the Shoreline series.

Key References
Gaylene Preston Curriculum Vitae [“B”] nd. (ends 1983)
Preston, G [Narrative] Self-pencilled 10pp document (ends 1978)
Shepard, D Writing a Woman Film Maker’s Life and Work: A Biofilmography of Gaylene Preston (1992) MA Thesis University of Auckland 60-63

Distribution
Channel 1 TVNZ March 1978

Publicity
Listener listing Sunday ? Marc


9. All The Way Up There (1979)

16mm Eastman colour negative
27 mins

Film Archive Ref: F10232

director and co-producer: GP
co-producer and lighting cameraman: Warrick Attewell
editor: Dell King
music: Wayne Mason

Valhalla Films. Funded by CIP and the Ministry of Recreation and Sport

The story of an impossible dream which became reality when Graeme Dingle and Bruce Burgess, a 24 year old with cerebral palsy climb Ruapehu together.

Key References/ Reviews
Auckland City Art Gallery; A Series Devised by Roger Horrocks: 5 Gaylene Preston (1984) Auckland City Art Gallery
Fenwick, A “Ex Coast Girl Developing Film on Deafness” [? Star] nd np (GP archives)
Fenwick, A “Film Shows World as Disabled See it” (1980) Auckland Star 10 December
“ Film on Disabled Wins Award” 10 December np (GP archives)
Gaylene Preston Curriculum Vitae [“B”] nd. (ends 1983)
[“Gaylene Preston…received a trophy”] (1984) New Zealand Woman’s Weekly 30 July 45
George, E “Getting it Right” [Readers Review] nd np (GP archives)
“ Grey- Born Girl Behind Latest TV Film Hit” nd np (GP archives)
“ May I Draw Your Attention To…” The Evening Post 11 July np
“ Preston – Another Movie”– [A newspaper article – GP’s own archive]nd
Shepard, D Writing a Woman Film Maker’s Life and Work: A Biofilmography of Gaylene Preston (1992) MA Thesis University of Auckland 63-66; and bibliography 250
“ Sorry, Gaylene” [Truth]
Whelan, B “Film Captures the Plea of Disabled” nd np (GP archives)

Distribution
Released in New Zealand cinemas as the short for Middle Age Spread and later, in February 1980, screened on television. Also shown on television networks in the United States, Britain, Holland, Sweden, Denmark, Malaysia and Switzerland.
The film was shown on Swiss television to open the International Year of Disabled Persons.
Distributed in the United States by Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Won special jury prizes at the Banff Festival of Mountain Films (1980) and the Festival International du Film Alpine, Les Diablerets (1980)

Publicity
Bradwell, J “Her Film is a Hit” (1980) New Zealand Women’s Weekly 3 March 11
Fenwick, A “Seeing The World as Disabled Do” (1980) The Nelson Evening Mail 19 December 10
Fenwick, A “Film Producer Focuses on a Different Angle” nd. np (GP archives)
Dashfield, P “Climb Film Earns Special Award” (1981) Dominion 19 March 10 – see big blue book
Fenwick, A “Ex Coast Girl Developing Film on Deafness” nd np The Greymouth Evening Star (GP archives)
“ Film Shows World as Disabled See it” (1980) Auckland Star 10 December np
Mayne, W “Film-Maker Applauds System” nd np (GP archives)
“ Movie Captures Aucklander’s Mountain Triumph” (1979) The Dominion 5 July 6
“ Way Up There… and Down Again” (1980) The Daily Telegraph 16 February 10
Whelan, Barry “Film Captures the Plea of the Disabled” (GP archives)
Vincent, R “[Wellington Film Maker]” nd np (GP archives)


10. Learning Fast (1980)

16mm Eastman colour negative
48 mins

Film Archive Ref: F5723

director and producer: GP
lighting camera: Alun Bollinger and Ian Paul
editor: Dell King

Gaylene Preston Productions. Funded by CIP, Department of Education, Ministry of Sport and Recreation

Made over a two-year period. Students at a Masterton school were filmed and talk about their lives and ambitions over a year as they leave school and start work, most enduring a period of unemployment.

Key References
Beattie, K “ ‘First Say and Last Cut’: A Conversation With Gaylene Preston” (1996) New Zealand Journal of Media Studies 3:1 4-16
Gaylene Preston Curriculum Vitae [“B”] nd. (ends 1983)
Auckland City Art Gallery; A Series Devised by Roger Horrocks: 5 Gaylene Preston Auckland City Art Gallery, 1984
“ Having to Learn Fast” (1981) The Dominion 2 October np
Shepard, D Writing a Woman Film Maker’s Life and Work: A Biofilmography of Gaylene Preston (1992) MA Thesis University of Auckland 63-66, discussion 95-114; and bibliography 250
“ TV Records Changes Faced by six Makora Students” (1981) Wairarapa Times-Age 30 September

Sharon Crosbie interview for National Radio nd

Distribution
Screened on New Zealand television.


11. Hold Up (1981)

16mm Eastman colour negative
24 mins

Film Archive Ref: F46068

director/co-producer: GP
story: GP
screenplay: GP and Michael Anthony Noonan
lighting cameraman: Ian Paul
music: Jan Preston
editor: Jamie Selkirk
co-producer: Dave Gibson

cast: Chris Orr, Lorraine Schriener, George Theobald

Gibson Films in association with Gaylene Preston Productions. Funded by New Zealand Film Commission; International Year of Disabled Persons

A parable designed to question community attitudes to the disabled. A blind man, a deaf woman, and a spastic film critic witness the robbery of a cinema. In the ensuing panic their information is ignored because people cannot see past their disabilities. The second part of the film consists of an interview with the lead actors who are themselves deaf, blind and spastic.

GP:” The film grew out of the Rehabilitation Film Festival I attended in New York. The International Year of the Disabled [in New Zealand] wished to commission a film but I wanted to remain independent.”

Key References/Reviews
Bryan, L “Trying To Communicate” [?November 1982] Listener np GP’s own archive
“ Crime … and Communication” (1982?) The Hawkes Bay Herald – Tribune November (GP archives)
“ Disabled Folk in Mystery Story” nd np (GP archives)
“ Fine Piece of TV” np, nd (GP archives)
Gaylene Preston Curriculum Vitae [“B”] nd. (ends 1983)
“ Gaylene Preston Wins Two Awards” nd np (GP archives)
“ Hold Up-Review” (1984) New Zealand Women’s Weekly 30 July 45
“ Hold Up With a Message” (1982) The Daily Telegraph 4 November 6
Reilly, C “Hold Up-Review” (1982) NZ Listener 11 December 112
Shepard, D Writing a Woman Film Maker’s Life and Work: A Biofilmography of Gaylene Preston (1992) MA Thesis University of Auckland 72-73, discussion 95-114; and bibliography 250
Whelan, B “ ‘Hold-up’ Better Than Most Films on Disabled” np, nd (GP archives)

Distribution
Screened TV1 4 November 1982

Distributed in the United States by Learning Corporation
VHS: Visual Production Unit Dept of EducationVoted Best Overseas Film ATOM (Australian Teachers of Media) 1983; Best Overseas Film for under 12 year olds Rehabilitation Film Festival (New York) 1983; First Prize Dramatization category Rehabilitation International World Congress Lisbon 1984

The film also featured in a teaching resource package aimed at making youngsters more aware of disabled people and their disabilities.

Publicity
Bryan, L (1983) “Quietly Observing” (1983) Listener 22 January 16
Fenwick, A “Ex Coast Girl Developing Film on Deafness” nd np The Greymouth Evening Star (GP archives)
Lamb, R “Type Cast – With a Purpose” (1982) New Zealand Women’s Weekly 1 November 52
Neville, P “Hold Up, Her First Job” (1982) New Zealand Women’s Weekly 1 November 53

Look in Blue Book


12. How I Threw Art Out the Window (1982?)

Experimental video
10mins (unfinished)

Film Archive Ref: F29591

producer/director/writer: GP
cast: Shirley Grace

funded by Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council

A young woman hitchhiker is picked up by a rather strange man (call him Art) who talks art-talk obsessively. She has to throw him out the window and drive to Taihape herself (offering him a Mintie first). Made for the Sexuality exhibition, Women’s Gallery Wellington.

GP: “I shot a slide show of images to be superimposed onto the ‘car’s’ back window but ran out of time and resources so that in the end it screened in the exhibition without that embellishment.”

Key References/Reviews
Gaylene Preston Curriculum Vitae [“B”] nd. (ends 1983)
Shepard, D Writing a Woman Film Maker’s Life and Work: A Biofilmography of Gaylene Preston (1992) MA Thesis University of Auckland 74

Distribution
Shown at Women’s Gallery, Wellington

Publicity


13. PATU! (1983)

16mm colour
110 minutes (and 82, 50 min versions)

Film Archive Ref:

producer/director: Merata Mita
co-ordinators: Gerd Pohlmann, GP (middle New Zealand), Martyn Sanderson
principal photography: Barry Herbert
editor: Annie Collins
sound: Gerd Pohlmann
music: diatribe

Awatea Films. Funded by Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council, National Catholic Commission for Evangelisation, Justice and Development, World Council of Churches and anti-apartheid groups such as HART and CARE

Film of the 1981 battle of people in New Zealand to stop the Springbok Tour.

Key References/ Reviews
Forbes, C “Racists take Issue With Film Grant” (1982) New Zealand Times 28 November 6.
Gaylene Preston Curriculum Vitae [“B”] nd. (ends 1983)
Shepard, D Writing a Woman Film Maker’s Life and Work: A Biofilmography of Gaylene Preston (1992) MA Thesis University of Auckland 74-76

Distribution
Winner International Students’ Prize Leipzig Festival, MRAP Prize Anti-Racist Festival in Amiens. Screened at many other film festivals including London, Los Angeles, Tashkent, Honolulu and Toronto.

Publicity
Cubey, M “Patu!” (1983) Salient 5 September 7


14. Taking Over (1982)

16mm Eastman colour negative
24mins

Film Archive Ref: F1445

co-producer/co-director: GP
co-producer/co-director/editor: Dell King
lighting cameraman: Rory O’Shea

Twenty-five 16-year-old girls who know nothing about the sea, ships, or one another, get the chance to take over the Spirit of Adventure, a 100-ton square-rigged schooner, sailing her under their own selected captain.

GP: “I consider this film rather more Dell’s project than my own.”

Key References/Reviews
Gaylene Preston Curriculum Vitae [“B”] nd. (ends 1983)
Shepard, D Writing a Woman Film Maker’s Life and Work: A Biofilmography of Gaylene Preston (1992) MA Thesis University of Auckland 76-77

Distribution
Screened TV1 22 February 1983

Publicity



15. Making Utu (1982)

16mm Fuji colour
48mins

Film Archive Ref: F4936

producer/director: GP
cameras: Alun Bollinger, John Toon and Murray Milne
editor: Simon Reece
music: Jonathan Crayford

For Scrubbs & Co

Watches the making of Geoff Murphy’s feature film and discusses some of the issues which emerge in exploring New Zealand’s racial past.

GP: “Non-narrative documentary, which went down surprisingly well with the general population who, as it turns out, don’t mind if there isn’t an actual linear story.”

Key References/ Reviews
Dekker, Diana “Wellington Film Maker Compares French, NZ Riot Squads” (1983) The Evening Post 16 May np
“ First Glimpse of ‘Utu’ nd np (GP archives)
Gaylene Preston Curriculum Vitae [“B”] nd. (ends 1983)
Shepard, D Writing a Woman Film Maker’s Life and Work: A Biofilmography of Gaylene Preston (1992) MA Thesis University of Auckland 78-81, discussion 95-114; and bibliography 250

Distribution
Screened on New Zealand’s TV2, Tuesday, 25 January 1983; Triangle Television 199?.

Publicity
Bryan, L “Quietly Observing” (1983) New Zealand Listener 22 January 16
“ TV Show Tonight” nd. np (GP archives)

Look in Blue Book.


16. The Only One You Need (1983)

16mm colour reversal finished on video
music clip; 10 mins

Film Archive Ref: F22878

producer/director: GP
lighting cameraman: Alun Bollinger
editor: Simon Reece
music: Neighbours

Blackball Films. Funded by the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council Film Fund and TVNZ.

GP: “A gripping story of Love gone sour, of robberies and rescues and the long arm of the law…shot on various locations very familiar to me in Blackball and Greymouth. The entire crew worked for free and the people of Blackball contributed heaps.”

Key References
“ Film-Maker Wins $5,000 Grant” (1983) The Dominion 6 January 1
Gaylene Preston Curriculum Vitae [“B”] nd. (ends 1983)
Shepard, D Writing a Woman Film Maker’s Life and Work: A Biofilmography of Gaylene Preston (1992) MA Thesis University of Auckland 86

Distribution
Screened on TVNZ’s Radio With Pictures, distributed in the United States by Jo Jones and King. Purchased by Entertainment Network in the United Kingdom and in pubs there via large-screen videos.

Publicity


17. Angel of the Junk Heap (1983)

16mm colour negative
music clip; 3mins

Film Archive Ref: no
director: Gaylene Preston
camera: John Whitteron

For the Sydney based group “TRIBE”. Commissioned by CBS Australia. Shot on location in various Sydney rubbish dumps. GP: “I did this for my sister who is the lead singer in the clip.”

Key References
Shepard, D Writing a Woman Film Maker’s Life and Work: A Biofilmography of Gaylene Preston (1992) MA Thesis University of Auckland 86-87

Distribution
Several repeat screenings on Australian TV video shows.

Publicity


18. Aspects of Utu (1983)

29 mins

Film Archive Ref: F10426

interviewer: GP
producer: Geoff Murphy/ Scrubbs & Co

with the assistance of New Zealand Film Commission, Thorn EMI Video, Todd Motors

NZFA Ref: F10426

GP interviews Geoff Murphy about the making of Utu.
Key References

Distribution
New Zealand educational only

Publicity




19. Mind Out (1984)

3/4 “ Hiband video
24mins

Film Archive Ref: F5220

director/producer: GP
art director: Gerry Luhman
music: Jonathan Crayford
editor: Simon Reece
writer: Simon O’Connor

cast: Tim Diamantis, Jane Wright, Clayton Brown, Sophie Siers, Bruno Lawrence, Ian Fraser,

Produced for the New Zealand Health Education Resources Project

Sharon, Brian, Amanda and Angus read the advertisement. Sounds interesting. They apply. In a building that looks like a rubic cube on the outside and NASA control centre on the inside, they meet Mr Big. An Orwellian “Big Brother”, he promises them the world. But gradually they find that there are fishhooks in his promises and they have decisions to face and to make.

GP: “I don’t really think of that film as mine. That was commissioned by the Education Department and it was a video not a film. It was specifically for educational use and was never screened on television. It was like making an industrial video. I interpreted the script as best I could. I’m not sure I pulled it off very well.”

Key References
Shepard, D Writing a Woman Film Maker’s Life and Work: A Biofilmography of Gaylene Preston (1992) MA Thesis University of Auckland 87

Distribution
VHS: Visual Production Unit Dept of Education

Publicity


20. Imagine (1984)

16mm Eastman colour negative
* mins

Film Archive Ref: F8567

director: GP
producer: Graeme Cowley
lighting cameraman: Graeme Cowley

A documentary covering the visit of anti-nuclear campaigner Dr Helen Caldicott to Wellington. Sponsored by the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.

GP: “Television wouldn’t touch it. They said they’d done Helen Caldicott and the nuclear issue. We transferred it to video and it had been well used by peace groups. A lot of the information wasn’t new in comparison with films like If You Love This Planet but I think it was useful for the people who commissioned it. I didn’t spend much time on it. That was a kind of favour for the physicians down the road who needed a record of Helen Caldicott’s time in New Zealand. I can’t believe we shot it almost in the middle of the pre-production for Mr Wrong.

Key References
Shepard, D Writing a Woman Film Maker’s Life and Work: A Biofilmography of Gaylene Preston (1992) MA Thesis University of Auckland 88

Distribution
Given away with stickers on the video that said “please copy this”.

Publicity


21. Mr Wrong/ Dark Of The Night (US title) (1985)

35mm colour
88 mins

Film Archive Ref: F5276

director/producer/: GP
producer: Robin Laing
screenplay: GP, Geoff Murphy, Graeme Tetley
photography: Thom Burstyn (colour)
camera: Alun Bollinger
art director: Mike Becroft
editor: Simon Reece
sound recordist: Ken Saville
music: Jonathan Crayford

cast: Heather Bolton, David Letch, Margaret Umbers, Suzanne Lee, Gary Stalker, Danny Mulheron, Perry Piercy, Philip Gordon, Michael Haigh, Kate Harcourt

Preston*Laing Productions in association with the New Zealand Film Commission and Barclays NZ Ltd

A genre-bending thriller about a young woman who buys a haunted car, based on a short story by Elizabeth Jane Howard. Released in the United States as Dark of the Night.

Key References/ Reviews
“ Actually, We Wouldn’t Mind if They Bombed Texas” (1986) Daily News 7 May 51
Archibald, L [“What Christine Should Have Been…”] (1986) Aquarian Arts Weekly nd np GP’s own archive
Avid, D “Movies- Mr Wrong” (1986) Race Gender Class 3 57
Bailey, B “Film” (1986) La Gazette 6 Juin
Bailey, B “Part II of Femme Fest” (1986) La Gazette 5 Juin
Balham, D “Film - Mr Wrong” (1985) Salient October p11
Ballantyne, S “Mr Wrong” (1985) New Zealand Woman’s Weekly 23 September 19
Ballantyne, S “Long-Distance Cinema Goers” nd New Outlook 57-58
Beesley, M “Cinemas Close the Door on Kiwi Films” (1985) 8 O’Clock 21 September 7. (Distribution issue)
Bennet, P “Panorama HB to See Hit Thriller” (1986) The Hawke’s Bay Herald-Tribune 11 March 18
Bollinger, A “16 Upwards” (1984) Onfilm December 2(1) 34-35
Bollinger, H “Wild Wellington Weather Right for Film Mr Wrong” (1984) The Greymouth Evening Star 4 August 1.
Breslin, R “Fill’er up and Check the Stiff in the Back Seat” (1986) Daily News 2 May 5
Calder, P “NZ Films in Festival” (1985) The New Zealand Herald 6 July section 2 p4
Campbell, G “Mr Wrong” (1988) Listener 17 December 17
“ Cannes Buyers Snap NZ Films” nd np (GP archives)
Chetwin, S “Mr Wrong Duo Take Matters into Own Hands” (1985) The Evening Post 14 September np
Clark, H “Right On With Mr Wrong” (1985) Auckland Star 27 July B4
Clark, H “Mr Wrong Turns Out So Right” (1985) Auckland Star 26 October B4
Clarke- Reynolds, M “Mr Wrong” (1985) Salient October p11
Coke, M “Getting it Right with Mr Wrong” (1984) Evening Post 1 September 13
Coke, M “Low Budget High Profile” (1986) Onfilm June 17-18
Coughlan, K “Right Movie Needs a Rich Hero” (1985) Life Times nd np GP’s own archive
Cowan, S “Let the Jaffas Roll” (1985) [Cania?] 24 July 10
Crist, J “Dark of the Night is a Dandy Little Thriller” (1986) Television Preview-New York 5 May np
“ The Critics Rave” (1986) Details [?47] GP’s own archive
“ Dark of the Night” (1986) Downtown Magazine 7 May 28-A
Dart, W “Film” (1985) Rip it Up September n98 42
“ Determined Film Maker” (1986) Daily Telegraph 15 March 1
Dieckmann, K “Cinemascoop” (1986) NYTalk 3:26 May np GP’s own archive
Dunphy, L “Back on the Boards” (1990) More August n86 32-34
Ellis, M “Gaylene Preston – Coaster of Tenacity Making a Name in Film World” nd. np. (GP archives)
England, J “Right on Mr Wrong” (1986) The Hawke’s Bay Herald-Tribune Weekender 15 March 17.
“ Fear and Herstory” (1985) Dominion 20 August 6
Festival Focus “Mr Wrong For Ms Right!” (1985) The Business of Film in Cannes 14 May 30
“ Film Clips-Dark of the Night” (1986) Aquarian Arts Weekly 29 April 28A
“ Film Reviews- Mr Wrong” (1985) Variety 24 April np
Gelmis, J “A Haunted Car Driven With Vengeance” (1986) Newsday May 2 Weekend 5
Goodman, W “Film: ‘Dark,’ Blue Jaguar With a Ghost” (1986) The New York Times 2 May np
Gosden, B “Mr Wrong 1984” [Film Festival ?] (GP archives)
Gosden, B “Premiere Cinema” (1985) [Film Festival ?] np (GP archives)
Gosden, B “Mr Wrong” (1985) Wellington Film Festival – Embassy Theatre 20 July (GP archives)
Gosden, B “Mr Wrong” (1985) Auckland Film Festival Programme 25 July
Granger, S [“Beware of used cars that look too good to be true… ?1986] WMCA, WICC Connecticut Broadcasting Co
Green, P and Cole, J “Women’s Film, Television & Video forum reports a speech by Gaylene Preston” (1988) Broadsheet September n 161 p 34- 38
Hall, S “Strokes and Art Attacks - The Making of Mr Wrong” (1985) Broadsheet September 132 51-53
Hardy, A “Tales of Ordinary Goodness” (1989) Illusions November 14-21
Hoffman, J “Girls Just Want To Have Fun” (1986) Village Voice 6 May 68
“ Hot Friday, Hanlon Top Finalists” (1986) The Evening Post 8 May 20
Hughes, L “Mr Wrong – Reviewed” (1985) Agenda September 9 np
“ In Pursuit of Excellence” The Daily Telegraph 15 March 5
Irvine, B “Mr Wrong Gets it Right” (1986) The Press 10 March 14
“ It’s All Going Right For Mr Wrong” (1986) [The Evening Post ?] 30 January np (GP archives)
“ Kiwi Flicks” – Kiwi Films’ School Tour (1987) Tearaway April 11
“ Kiwi Spine Chiller” nd. np. (GP archives)
Knowles, M “Movie Guide” (1986) The Evening Post 14 February np (GP archives)
Leslie, S “Women Strong on NZ Thrillers” (1988) The Evening Post 22 June np (GP archives)
“ Living Goes to the Movies- Ninth Festival Hits Town” (1985) The Christchurch Star 23 July np
Maiberger, E, Montaug, H and Richheimer, J “The Critics Rave” (1986) ‘Details’ Magazine- Movies May p47
Martin, H “Driving Irony” (1985) Listener 19 October 40
Martin H and Edwards, S New Zealand Film 1912-1996 (1997) Auckland, Oxford University Press 118
McDonnell, B “Viewing a Great Year for the British” (1987) North and South December 171-173
McLean, J “Mucking about with Movies” (1985) Dazzle October/ November n2 5-6
Mr Wrong Scrapbook (GP archives)
May, S “Genre Bending” (1985) OnFilm 24 April 8; and cover image
“ Mr Wrong” (1990) A Season of New Zealand Films 2 December 20
“ Mr Wrong – [Film Festival]” (1985) Wellington City July 48
Murphy, R “Peelings From the Big Apple” (1986) Onfilm April 3 59
“ New Zealand Contingent- Cannes Festival” (1985) Variety 1 May 379
“ New Zealand Films at Cannes” (1985) Variety nd p384 (GP archives)
Nicolaidi, M “76 Views and Two Festivals” Wellington City Magazine (1985) December 70-71
Nicolaidi, M “Slaps On the Back” (1985) Wellington City Magazine September 50-51
Nicolaidi, M “Gaylene Scores Big With Her Mr Wrong” (1985) Evening Post 14 September np (GP archives)
O’Shea, J “Her Film Puts Fear into Focus” (1985) Auckland Star Magazine 3 July Section B1, 16
Outlook (1985) Dominion 20 August (Newspapers in Education reprint GP’s own archive)
Parker, J “Critics Choice” (1985) Metro July 183
Parker, J “Two from America; Two from New Zealand. Both Good. Mr Wrong” (1985) Metro 1 October 38
Peterson, G “Mr Wrong on Right Track” (1985) Dominion 4
“ Phantom of the Movies” (1986) Daily News 7 May 51
“ Review” (1986) Playboy April p19
“ Quatre Femmes, Quatre Pays” (1986) La Presse 7 Juin np
Sayle, J “Innocence and Fear: Feminine Fear & Masculine Menace in Mr Wrong” (1989) Illusions 12 22-24
Seton, J “Meg and the Space Invaders –