Dame Gaylene Preston

Dame Gaylene Preston is an award winning writer, producer and director. In 2001 she was the first filmmaker to receive an Arts Foundation Laureate Award. In 2016 she received the New Zealand Woman of Influence Award for Arts and Culture, and in 2017 she was given the Premium Moa Award for services to cinema. In 2018 she was visiting scholar at the Intellectual Forum, Jesus College Cambridge. She has made several popular classics of New Zealand cinema and her recent memoir, Gaylene’s Take: Her life in New Zealand Film, was long-listed for the General Nonfiction Book Award in the Ockham NZ Book Awards.

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Gaylene opens Day 2 with The Image and the Word: A Life in Film.

Chair: Lesley Burkes-Harding