Dame Gaylene Preston
Director, Writer, Producer, Honorary Life Member of WIFT NZ
Dame Gaylene Preston is one of New Zealand's most valued filmmakers, with a screen career spanning four decades. She has writer, director and producer credits covering feature films, documentaries and TV drama series. Many, including War Stories, Bread And Roses, Mr Wrong, and Home By Christmas, are classics of New Zealand cinema.
Dame Gaylene's films have been in official selection for Venice, Sundance, Toronto, London, Sydney, Melbourne and New Zealand film festivals, and have won awards in USA, Canada, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Russia, Australia and New Zealand.
She is The New Zealand Arts Foundation's inaugural Filmmaker Laureate (), an Officer of the NZ Order of Merit for services to filmmaking () and the recipient of a WIFT NZ Lifetime achievement Award. In she received the inaugural lifetime achievement award for outstanding contribution to documentary from Documentary Edge, and she was the recipient of a SWANZ mentor award in She received the Women of Influence Award for Arts and Culture, the SPADA Industry Champion Award and the NZ Film Awards' Services to Cinema
Dame Gaylene Preston DNZM
"I believe that the basic responsibility of New Zealand filmmakers is to make films principally for the New Zealand audience. If we don't, no-one else will."
Dame Gaylene Preston is a national treasure, with an exceptional career over more than three decades. An innovative writer, director, and producer, Dame Gaylene has insisted that it is possible to live in New Zealand and contribute New Zealand stories to global cinema, and her award-winning work has screened extensively at international festivals including Venice, Sundance, Toronto, London, Fantasporto, Chicago, San Francisco, Munich, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Adelaide, Brighton, Athena NY and New Zealand.
Dame Gaylene has served on most industry boards including the New Zealand Film Commission and New Zealand On Air, and has chaired Creative New Zealand's Film Innovation Fund and the New Zealand Film and Television Awards Society. At the same **time, as evidenced in her executive producer credits of many AWARD WINNING films, including Annie Goldson's Punitive Damage, Brita McVeigh's Coffee, Tea or Me? Michelle Savill's Ellen is Leaving and Paora Joseph's Tatarakihi -The
Telling stories through film is what gets me out of bed. This website is the kete. Within can be found my life’s work. Whether you’re a film fan, a film student or a fairy godmother deciding whether to invest in a future project, I hope you enjoy what you find here. And please do get in touch if you have any questions. I’m probably out shooting something or sitting in a darkened edit suite… but I will reply to your message. Ngā Mihi Dame Gaylene. Dame Gaylene Preston DNZM is celebrated as a leading filmmaker, having produced and directed some of the most enduring popular classics of New Zealand cinema. Preston is a storyteller whose work has a distinctive flavour that entertains while presenting serious subjects with humour and warmth. Her compassion and understanding of real life, and real people, combined with her talent for portraying on film metaphoric stories, over four decades has contributed to Gaylene’s peerless reputation as a distinct local voice. Preston’s generosity of spirit and powerful mentorship and advocacy skills have been central to the development of New Zealand’s filmma
Gaylene Preston began in film by accident, while trying to give a voice to those that didn't have one. She was working at a psychiatric hospital near London. Since many of the patients couldn't talk, the idea of drama therapy did not at first seem a very useful idea. A friend proposed shooting a film instead. Preston found that the film, the first of many, offered these "people who everyone ignored" respect, and a public voice. Preston grew up in Westport, and then Napier. In Westport, her father ran a fish'n'chips shop, before her parents took on a milk delivery run in Napier. "Drawing, writing, escaping into a story" — and making things up — provided an escape into somewhere more interesting. Preston was "a radio kid". At age three she was asked to recite a poem on local station 3YZ. Later she and her sister Jan acted in radio plays. During piano lessons she encouraged her teacher to tell stories, including about the Napier earthquake. Collecting oral histories would grow "from a childhood history into a lifelong habit". After leaving school, Preston did three years at Ilam art school, then seven years in England. She returned to New Zealand in ,
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