Never Look Away

Award-winning camera operator Margaret Moth always headed towards the action; the first camerawoman to work for New Zealand state television, she left Aotearoa in 1980 to work for the CNN and cover war zones in the Middle East and Sarajevo. Even a life-changing injury from sniper fire gave her little pause. Actor Lucy Lawless (Xena, My Life is Murder) takes her first feature directing credit with this documentary, which explores Moth's complex back story and her desire to "be part of history". In this trailer,  friends and former CNN colleagues recall Moth's drive and singular spirit.

...compact yet complex portrait of a singularly and aggressively unconventional war correspondent who inspired equal measures of admiration and anxiety among her friends, colleagues and lovers throughout her 20 years of assignments in the world’s trouble spots — Baghdad, Sarajevo, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Zaire . . . [Director Lucy Lawless] strikes a delicate balance between hagiography and brutal honesty while constructing her narrative from archival footage and talking heads interviews.

– Film reviewer Joe Leydon on Never Look Away, Variety, 1 May 2024

Key Cast & Crew

Richard Bluck

Cinematographer

Tom Blackwell

Writer

Margaret Moth

Subject

Whetham Allpress

Editor, Writer

Matthew Metcalfe

Producer, Writer

Lucy Lawless

Director, Writer