Gaylene Preston

With unique access to high-ranking candidate Helen Clark, filmmaker Gaylene Preston casts a wry eye on proceedings as the United Nations chooses ...

The Hawke’s Bay earthquake was New Zealand’s worst civil disaster. Over 250 people died following the 7.8 quake on 3 February 1931. In this ...

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’- ...

Seven New Zealand women speak about their lives during World War II: some lost husbands, some got married, some went into service themselves. The ...

Based upon the life of activist and trade unionist (and later MP) Sonja Davies. The film covers her life up to 1956, when, at age 33, she was ...

Ruby, an 83 year old trying to dodge a retirement home, rents a room to Rata, a solo mum with sidelines in music and benefit fraud. Rata’s ...

Gaylene Preston’s documentary on writer Keri Hulme — filmed two years after Hulme shot to global fame thanks to her Booker Prize-winning ...

A small town woman, fresh to the city, buys a used Jaguar haunted by the ghost of a woman who was slain in it.

This video from Gaylene Preston, shot on her VHS camera, captures an anti-nuclear protest four years before Aotearoa officially went ...

Making of documentary on the set of New Zealand’s first epic Utu (1983), working with little money and dealing respectfully with matters of ...