Gaylene Preston
Gaylene Preston has been making feature films and documentaries with a distinctive New Zealand flavour and a strong social message for over 30 years. In 2001 she was the first filmmaker to be made a Laureate by the Arts Foundation, recognising her contribution to New Zealand film and television.
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. Gaylene Preston
ScreenTalk Legends - Gaylene Preston
Interview, 2024
Gaylene Preston: On making NZ films...
Interview, 2009
Taki Rua Theatre - Breaking Barriers
2024, Executive Producer - Film
LOIMATA, The Sweetest Tears
2020, Executive Producer - Film
Hot Words and Bold Retorts
2018, Director, Producer - Short Film
My Year with Helen
2017, Director, Producer, Co-Cinematographer - Film
Amy Street
2016, Executive Producer - Web
The Art of Recovery
2015, Executive Producer - Film
Hope and Wire - Full Series
2014, Director, Writer, Producer - Television
The Waterside
2014, Director - Music video
Tātarakihi - The Children of Parihaka
2012, Executive Producer - Film
Strongman - The Tragedy
2012, Director - Dramatic Sequences, Writer, Executive Producer - Television
Ellen is Leaving
2012, Executive Producer - Short Film
Operation 8
2011, Consultant - Film
Reel Late with Kate - Episode
2010, Subject, Guest Film Critic - Television
50 Years of New Zealand Television: 1 - From One Channel to One Hundred
2010, Subject - Television
The Making of Home by Christmas
2010, Subject - Short Film
50 Years of New Zealand Television: 6 - A Sense of Identity
2010, Subject - Television
Home by Christmas
2010, Director, Writer, Producer, As: Herself - Film
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
2009, Camera - Film
Barefoot Cinema - The Life and Art of Cinematographer Alun Bollinger
2008, Subject - Television
Lovely Rita
2007, Director, Producer - Television
The Time of Our Lives
2007, Director, Producer, Commentary Writer, Narrator, Additional Camera Operator - Television
Ans Westra - Private Journeys / Public Signposts
2006, Consultant - Television
Earthquake!
2006, Director, Producer - Television
Tau Te Mauri - Breath of Peace
2005, Consultant - Film
The Making of Perfect Strangers
2004, Director, Producer, Subject - Short Film
Perfect Strangers
2003, Director, Writer, Producer - Film
Coffee, Tea or Me?
2002, Producer - Television
Titless Wonders
2001, Director, Producer, Digital Video Crew - Television
Today Live - Gaylene Preston on Titless Wonders
2001, Subject - Television
Wahine Requiem
2001, Director - Short Film
Campaign
1999, Consultant - Film
Getting to Our Place
1999, Co-Director, Producer - Television
Punitive Damage
1999, Producer - Film
Survivor Stories
1998, Producer, Director - Short Film
Hone Tuwhare
1996, Director, Co-Producer, Subject - Television
One Network News - 1995 Cannes Film Festival
1995, Subject - Television
War Stories Our Mothers Never Told Us
1995, Director, Writer, Producer - Film
Bread and Roses
1993, Director, Writer, Associate Producer - Television
Breaking Barriers
1993, Subject - Television
The Making of Bread and Roses
1993, Subject - Television
Married
1992, Director - Television
Sweetness
1992, Consultant Producer - Short Film
Ruby and Rata
1990, Director, Co-Producer, Script Development - Film
O'Reilly's Luck
1989, Writer - Short Film
Last Days at McVay Street
1988, Director, Camera Operator, Editor - Short Film
Kaleidoscope - NZ Cinema, the Past Decade
1987, Subject - Television
Kai Pūrākau - The Storyteller
1987, Director, Producer - Television
Today Tonight - Gaylene Preston and Keri Hulme
1987, Subject - Television
Dangerous Orphans
1986, Art Director - Film
Sunday - Media Women
1986, Subject - Television
Mr Wrong
1985, Director, Writer, Co-Producer - Film
Angel of the Junkheap
1984, Director - Music video
Saving the Earth
1984, Director - Short Film
Shirley Grace Puts Out the Washing
1983, Camera Operator, Editor - Short Film
Close Up - Patu: Completing the Picture
1983, Subject - Television
Nuclear Horror Show Parade
1983, Director, Editor, Camera Operator, Interviewer - Short Film
Patu!
1983, Coordinator - Film
Making Utu
1982, Director, Producer - Television
The Only One You Need
1982, Director - Music video
The Only One You Need - The Neighbours Compilation
1982, Producer, Director - Short Film
The Monster's Christmas
1981, Art Director - Television
Hold Up
1981, Director, Writer, Story - Short Film
How I Threw Art Out the Window
1981, Director, Writer, Producer - Short Film
Learning Fast
1980, Director, Producer - Film
All the Way Up There
1979, Director, Producer - Television
Middle Age Spread
1979, Set Design - Film
Shoreline
1978, Director, Animator - Television
Shoreline - First Episode
1978, Director, Animator - Television