Gaylene Preston - director, writer producer
Her documentaries are recognised as toanga and include Lovely Rita,
Making Utu, Getting To Our Place, (co-directed with Anna Cottrell)
Punitive Damage (as Co Producer) Tatarakihi Children of Parihaka
(as Executive Producer) and Earthquake, a documentary for TV3 on
the devastating 1931 Hawkes Bay earthquakes.
She is The New Zealand Arts Foundation's inaugural Filmmaker
Laureate (2001) an Officer of the NZ Order of Merit for services to
filmmaking and the recipient of a WIFT NZ Lifetime achievement
Award. Her outstanding services to documentary were recognised by
Documentary Edge and she was the recipient of a SWANZ mentor award
in 2012.
Born in Greymouth, she was educated in Hawkes Bay and studied
painting at the Canterbury School Of Fine Arts, before moving to
England, where her interest in filmmaking arose from her work as an
art therapist.
Her films have screened in most leading film festivals including
NZ, Venice, Sundance, Toronto, London, Vancouver, Sydney, Melbourne
and have won awards in New Zealand, Italy, Canada, Australia,
Britain, USA, Spain, Portugal and Switzerland.
Gaylene has served on most industry boards including the New
Zealand Film Commission, New Zealand on Air and she is currently a
Governor of The New Zealand Arts Foundation. Gaylene Preston
Productions her owner operated production company was established
in 1978.
Her documentaries are recognised as toanga and include Lovely
Rita, Making Utu, Getting To Our Place, (co-directed with Anna
Cottrell) Punitive Damage (as Co Producer) Tatarakihi Children of
Parihaka (as Executive Producer) and Earthquake, a documentary for
TV3 on the devastating 1931 Hawkes Bay earthquakes.
She is The New Zealand Arts Foundation's inaugural Filmmaker
Laureate (2001) an Officer of the NZ Order of Merit for services to
filmmaking and the recipient of a WIFT NZ Lifetime achievement
Award. Her outstanding services to documentary were recognised by
Documentary Edge and she was the recipient of a SWANZ mentor award
in 2012.
Born in Greymouth, she was educated in Hawkes Bay and studied
painting at the Canterbury School Of Fine Arts, before moving to
England, where her interest in filmmaking arose from her work as an
art therapist.
Her films have screened in most leading film festivals including
NZ, Venice, Sundance, Toronto, London, Vancouver, Sydney, Melbourne
and have won awards in New Zealand, Italy, Canada, Australia,
Britain, USA, Spain, Portugal and Switzerland.
Gaylene has served on most industry boards including the New
Zealand Film Commission, New Zealand on Air and she is currently a
Governor of The New Zealand Arts Foundation. Gaylene Preston
Productions her owner operated production company was established
in 1978.
View Gaylene Preston's membership profile.