Women Filmmakers: Interviews

Libby Hakaraia is extraordinary, as a maker of film and television and a visionary change maker. I loved hearing Libby on a Media Take…

Sundance’s Merata Mita Fellowship is named in honour of the late, great, Māori filmmaker Merata Mita (1942–2010). It’s awarded to ‘a Native…

Annie’s a legend. I know her from an unfinished project we worked on years ago, Something For My Grandchildren To Hold, a documentary about…

Isabel Coixet, based in Barcelona, has made 14 feature films, many of them award-winning. Her Elisa & Marcela, about two women who married…

Loren Taylor inspires me. Based in Wellington, and an actor for film, television and theatre since she was 17, she’s also a writer…

Shuchi Kothari is a filmmaker and academic, based at the University of Auckland, where she is director of Screen Production. She’s written…

I’ve been reflecting on webseries in Aotearoa New Zealand, because I believe they’re central to our development of a diverse and…

Kathleen Winter’s Minimum explores the lives of women of various ages, ethnicities and sexualities working in minimum wage and…

Births, Deaths and Marriages was a highlight of last year’s New Zealand International Film Festival for me, one of only two local features…

Jacqueline Kalimunda’s Single Rwandan Seeks Serious Relationship asks ‘How do people love after genocide?’ It uses new technologies to…

Rouzie Hassanova’s award-winning Radiogram is #directedbywomen #aotearoa’s first screening for 2020, at Parliament on 16 March.

Cushla Parekowhai and I went to previews for Dana Rotberg’s new feature White Lies/Tuakiri Huna — Cush in Auckland and me down here in…

Four thousand five hundred short films were submitted to the Short Film Competition at Cannes this year. Ten were selected. Women wrote and…

Kukan is a 1941 documentary made by Rey Scott that highlights China’s resistance to Japan during the early years of World War II. It…