Gaylene Preston Productions Feature Films

When Melanie goes home from the pub with a handsome stranger, she’s captivated by his charm and attentiveness. He sails her away to his ‘castle’- a rundown shack on a deserted island. But when seduction becomes deception and passion becomes possession, Melanie realizes that she has been kidnapped. Torn between fear and desire, Melanie must escape - but her ardent admirer has other plans.

This remarkable documentary manages to compel almost exclusively via the spoken word as seven elderly women offer candid yet articulate and boldy frank recollections of their wartime experience. A rare blend of entertainment and education destined to earn its place as something of a national treasure.

A gracious tribute to the post-war generation of New Zealand women, Gaylene Preston does a job worthy of her forebears in charting the early years of social campaigner, Sonya Davies. Genevieve Picot won the 1994 NZ Film Award for Best Actress.

A cantankerous landlord, a would-be rock singer and a delinquent child have more in common than they realise when they unwittingly share the same roof. A warm-hearted comedy.

A young woman acquires a Mark 2 Jaguar that appears to be harbouring the ghost of a past owner. Some well executed thrills keep Heather Bolton convincingly terrified.