# Gaylene Preston

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Caterpillar star Anais Shand

New family drama Caterpillar is hitting cinemas just in time for Mothers' Day. It explores the complexities of the mother-daughter relationship. Caterpillar is the directorial debut of Chelsea Preston Crayford - loosely based on her own life, growing up with filmmaker mother Dame Gaylene Preston. P…

Fast Favourites: Dame Gaylene Preston

Dame Gaylene Preston failed her art school degree. The F appeared in the paper the morning results were published. What followed was a move to Cambridge with her husband, a job as assistant librarian at a 900-bed psychiatric hospital, and the discovery that film could give institutionalised patient…

Chelsie Preston-Crayford tells John Cowan about her new 'autofictional' film Caterpillar

Chelsie is a powerhouse of New Zealand stage and screen, carrying on a formidable creative lineage as the daughter of filmmaker Dame Gaylene Preston and musician Jonathan Crayford. Over her 20-year career, she has built a reputation for versatility, moving seamlessly between grit and grace. C…

Fast Favourites: Ana Scotney – mentored by two Dames and the pasta she can't get enough of

Ana Scotney is currently starring in Playfight at Silo Theatre. Written by British playwright Julia Grogan in the aftermath of the Grace Millane trial, follows three teenage girls navigating sex, shame and identity, and is the first time the Edinburgh Festival hit has been staged outside the UK. An…

Strange Country - Episode 05: Life Before Jackson

New Zealand horror did not start with Peter Jackson. In 1984 a gory little film about mutants on an island won the grand prize at a Paris festival of fantastic cinema, with Alejandro Jodorowsky heading the jury. It was called Death Warmed Up. It came out three years before Bad Taste. This episode g…

Dame Robin White on Working with Oil Paint Again

Celebrated New Zealand artist Dame Robin White has returned to painting with oil for the first time in 50 years. Renowned for portraying people and their environments in New Zealand and the Pacific in prints and tapa cloth, Robin's latest painting 'Karawa, Tarawa, Marawa (Sky, Land, Sea) aligns bea…

Memories of Sam Neill

A giant of the pictures, paddocks and protests, Sam Neill has died at 78. A glittering cast share their memories of an extraordinary New Zealander. Tributes from Robyn Malcolm, Oscar Kightley, Gaylene Preston, Ian Taylor, Kate Rodger, Rachel House, Lucy Lawless, Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Gregory O’Bri…