Sheilas: 28 Years On

Twenty eight years after featuring in landmark feminist documentary series Women, five interviewees reveal how their lives have changed. Donna Awatere Huata, Miriam Cameron, Sandi Hall, Aloma Parker and Marcia Russell candidly discuss work, sex, the media and Māori in this 70 minute documentary. Artist Cameron recalls how feminists were seen in the 1970s: "she was a braless, hairy, fat hag". Journalist Russell remembers not being allowed to work past 11pm because she was a woman, while psychologist Parker felt liberated by feminist Germaine Greer's refusal to wear a bra.

I gave up modelling and became a concrete worker because I wanted a job where I could be independent, and use my body, and have workmates. You've just got no idea the difference between being a model and a concrete worker. It's like being dead and alive.

– Concrete worker Miriam Cameron in 1977 TV series Women

Key Cast & Crew

Marcia Russell

Subject

Mairi Gunn

Cinematographer

Annie Goldson

Co-Director, Narrator, Interviewer, Executive Producer, Research

Dawn Hutchesson

Co-Director, Production Manager, Producer, Research

Sean Donnelly (SJD)

Composer

Tim Woodhouse

Editor