Never Look Away

...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

Something made me...I was so afraid that somebody else would grab this project because I figured it had to have been a form letter that they'd sent out to a thousand other people, so I seized upon it and immediately kind of regretted my chutzpah because I had no qualifications to be making these promises and by then I was just in too deep. I had to go forward . . . and a couple of weeks later it sort of fell to me to direct...

– Lucy Lawless on grabbing the chance to make Never Look Away, Radio New Zealand, 14 May 2024

One of the things I'm proudest of is . . . I don't really tell, we're very careful not to tell anybody how to feel or what to think about any of our players, so you get to decide who's a reliable witness and  . . . .who do you believe, who do you like and three people from the same family can be sitting there watching the film and have very different opinions on all those things. So I'm not there to tell you, to colour your opinion, I'm there to give you a wild ride through a very unusual life.

– Lucy Lawless on her approach to making Never Look Away, Radio New Zealand, 14 May 2024

A stirring tribute to New Zealand photojournalist Margaret Moth, Never Look Away leans into its subject’s complexities, presenting viewers with a layered, intelligent study of a woman who lived unapologetically and ferociously, choosing to cover war zones rather than embrace a conventional existence.

– Reviewer Tim Grierson, Screen Daily, 25 April 2024

Our stories and Margaret's pictures forced our democracies not to turn away.

– CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour

It doesn't matter how close you come to death...today I'm just going to be having a lot of fun.

– Margaret Moth in a 1970s interview, while going skydiving

...at a certain point sex, drugs and rock n' roll just wasn't enough. War was the ultimate drug.

– One of Margaret Moth's colleagues, on her attraction to danger