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Rita Angus uncompromisingly stood alone among her generation.
Surrounded by secrecy even after her death, at last
her story can be told.
Finalist: Competition DOCNZ 2007
70 mins
Gaylene Preston Productions for TV1 and New Zealand On
Air
A lively and loving look at one of our cultural icon.
**** (four stars) Angela Walker SUNDAY STAR TIMES.
On the road to the London Memorial, thirty two veterans
have a marvellous time while reflecting on the battles,
absent friends and the terrible cost of war.
Winner: Best Popular Documentary Qantas Television Awards
2007
45 mins
Gaylene Preston Productions for TV3 and New Zealand On
Air
Winner, Best Popular Documentary
Qantas TV Awards 2007.
WINNER, Best Sound Air NZ screen awards
2006
FINALIST 4 categories including best director, Air NZ Screen
Awards 2006.
FINALIST Best Popular Documentary Qantas Awards 2006
“one of the years best films,
stylish, funny and disturbing….a
genuine original”
Evan Williams THE AUSTRALIAN
“Gaylene Preston’s
generally taut and well directed pic is her best work
in film to
date...”
David
Stratton VARIETY
The
surprising tale of the underestimated trollydolly.
70 mins Beta SP
Director/Producer - Brita McVeigh
Selected: NZ International Film Festival 2002, Sydney,
Melbourne, Vancouver
Gaylene Preston Production
Emotional
journeys after a breast cancer diagnosis.
Beta SP
* NZ Media Peace Awards 2001 Winner Premier Award
Selected: NZ International Film Festival 2001
Keynote presentation World Breast Cancer Symposium
2002
Gaylene Preston Productions
“A
compelling mixture of poetry and pragmatism.”
Irene
Gardiner
Semi-permanent
cinema installation for the Maritime Museum, Wellington
Museum of City and Sea.
12mins
A
fly-on-the-wall behind the scenes look at the remarkably
bumpy road to Te Papa.
72mins
Co-Director - Anna Cottrell
Selected NZ Film Festival 1999
Gaylene Preston Productions
The
true story of a death in Timor and the power of a mother’s
grief.
Feature: 78mins 35mm Colour
Director/Producer - Annie Goldson
* Munich Film Festival Awards Silver
Medianet
* Sydney Film Festival Awards Best Documentary
2nd place
* Selected Critics Week Locarno International
Documentary Festival
Occasional Productions in Assn with Gaylene
Preston Productions
“ Packs
more punch than most Hollywood blockbusters”
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The Hawkes Bay
Earthquake of 1931 remembered
Projection for the Hawkes Bay Culture Trust, Napier
Semi-permanent cinema installation
36mins glass laser disc
3 Television commercials for the
Land Transport Safety Authority.
*Silver Mobius – Outstanding creativity
for direction (USA)
Saatchi & Saatchi/Flying Fish
A
documentary portrait of Maori poet, Hone Tuwhare.
46mins
John Harris – Producer
Selected NZ International Film Festival 1996
Greenstone Pictures in assn with Gaylene Preston Productions
“Gaylene
Preston has fashioned a shrewdly appreciative portrait...”
Bill
Gosden NZ FILM FESTIVAL
Television
commercials for the Land Transport Safety Authority.
*Gold Axis Award 1996 (NZ)
*Silver Clio 1997
Saatchi & Saatchi/Flying Fish
Seven
New Zealand women share stories of love and loss during
the Second World War.
Feature: 94mins 35mm Dolby Stereo
Executive Producer Robin Laing
*Best Film – NZ Film & TV Awards
1995
*Most Popular Film – Sydney Film Festival 1995
*Best Documentary – Sydney Film Festival 1995
Selected: Venice Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival
1996
AFI Assoc. Charity Screening, Los Angeles 1996, Toronto,
Montreal, Seattle, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Melbourne,
Hong Kong,
Gothenburg, Munich
Gaylene Preston Productions
“A
rich universal experience”
Kevin
Thomas L.A. TIMES
A four-part mini-series for television
based on the autobiography of Sonja Davies.
200mins 16mm colour
Robin Laing – Producer
Writer - Graeme Tetley / Gaylene Preston
*New Zealand Film & Television Awards 1994
Film: Best Performance in a Dramatic Role – Female
TV: Best Performance in a Dramatic Role – Female
TV: Best Supporting Performance – Male
TV: Best Design
* Melbourne Film Festival – 3rd Popular Choice
Selected: New Zealand, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth,
Seattle, London, Toronto, San Francisco among others
Preston*Laing Productions
“
In the ‘kill to watch’ category ….faultlessly
directed.”
Neil
Jillet – MELBOURNE AGE
Part
of Anthology Drama Series.
50mins 16mm colour
Producer - Cheryl Cameron
Writer – Sue McCauley
Selected: Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch International
Film Festivals
Meridian Film Productions
An
old lady, a would be rock singer and a delinquent child – with
more in common than they realise. A comedy/drama
102mins 35mm colour
Writer – Graeme Tetley
Producer – Robin Laing
*New Zealand Film & Television Awards:
Best Editing
Best Film Score
Best Contribution to a Soundtrack
Best Male Performance
*Winner - 3rd Place-Popular Choice, Best
Feature Sydney & Melbourne
Film Festivals
*Gold Medal Award Giffoni Childrens Film
Festival, Italy
*Top 10 selection most popular, Toronto Film
Festival
Selected: New Zealand, Sydney, Melbourne,
Toronto, London, Milan, Seattle, Los Angeles,
Hawaii
and Palm Springs
International Film
Festivals
Preston*Laing Productions
“
Preston and her team have woven a special kind of Kiwi
magic in this one – I’d
crawl over broken glass to see it again – and
again”
Peter Calder
NZ HERALD
A
documentary for Thames Television (UK) on Booker Prize
winning
writer Keri Hulme.
27mins 16mm colour
Selected: New Zealand International Film
Festival
Gaylene Preston Productions
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 USA as “Dark
of The Night”
87mins 35mm colour
Producer – Robin Laing
Screenplay – Gaylene Preston, Geoff Murphy, and
Graeme Tetley
*New Zealand Film and & Television
Awards Best Female Performance
*2eme Prix du Public Festival de
Films de Femmes de Creteil 1986
Selected NZ, Seattle, Chicago, Melbourne
and Munich Film Festivals
Preston*Laing Productions
“A
dandy little thriller marked by excellent performances”
Judith
Crist
Merata Mita’s
feature-length documentary about
the protest against the Springbok
tour of New Zealand (1981).
85 mins, 16mm
Awatea Films
A documentary about
the making of Geoff Murphy’s feature-film UTU, looking
at the issues involved in exploring
New Zealand’s
racial past.
48mins 16mm colour
Gaylene Preston Productions
A
deaf dress designer, a blind radio
announcer and a spastic film
critic
witness the robbery
of a cinema.
24mins 16mm colour
Screenplay - Gaylene Preston and
Michael Noonan
*Australian Teachers of Media (1983).
Best Overseas Film for under 12year-olds
*Best Overseas Film. Rehabilitation
Film Festival (New York 1983)
*First Prize – Dramatisation category – Rehabilitation
International World Congress
(Lisbon 1984)
Gibson Films / Gaylene Preston
Productions
A
documentary about seven small town
seventeen year olds leaving school
and finding their
place in the
world.
48mins 16mm colour
Gaylene Preston Productions
“A
classic Documentary. Excellent, Preston shows
a deft touch”
THE DOMINION
Bruce
Burgess, a 24 year-old, spastic since
birth and Graeme Dingle, a
well-known mountaineer,
climb Mt Ruapehu
together.
27mins 16mm colour
Producer – Warrick Attewell
*Special Jury Prize – Banff Festival
of Mountain Films (1980)
*Special Jury Prize – Festival International
du Film Alpine, Les Diaberets (1980)
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