Winners & Losers: The Woman at the Store

This acclaimed drama from 1975 adapts a Katherine Mansfield story about three travellers who encounter a strange woman and child, at a remote country store. Co-directed by Roger Donaldson and Ian Mune, it won Feltex Awards for Best Script (Mune and Peter Hansard) and Actress (Ilona Rodgers). Mune and Donaldson used the drama's success and innovative financing model as a 'proof of concept', to secure funding for their 1976 series Winners & Losers. The Woman at the Store debuted on Kiwi TV screens in March 1975; it was sold as part of the Winners series overseas.

A week after filming was completed, two days under the scheduled twelve, the first batch of film was back from Australia. Ian and Roger were delighted with it. The colour and lighting were pure and bright, very New Zealand, very Katherine Mansfield.

– Writer Louise Callan, in an article on the making of The Woman at the Store, Thursday magazine, 24 October 1974

Key Cast & Crew

Ilona Rodgers

As: Katherine

Ian Mune

Co-Director, Writer, As: Jo

Roger Donaldson

Co-Director, Cinematographer

Peter Hansard

Writer

Niccola Sanderson

As: The Kid

Jeremy Stephens

As: Jim