My Year With Helen sold out Wellington first session
My Year With Helen sold out Wellington first session
in one day
For IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 7,
2017
MY YEAR WITH HELEN is the first film to sell out a
session in the NZ International Film Festival. The film’s
first Wellington session on July 30 at the Embassy Theatre
sold out on the first day of ticket sales
yesterday.
There are still seats available for the second
Wellington session on August 1 and both Auckland sessions
(July 23 and 25).
An observational documentary, MY YEAR
WITH HELEN travels alongside former Prime Minister Helen
Clark campaigning to become the first woman UN
Secretary-General while continuing her work as the highest
ranking female at the UN, leading the UN Development Group
and managing to stay in daily contact with her 94-year-old
father back in New Zealand.
Preston’s cameras explore
the cracks between the diplomats, the embedded press and
feminist activists as they push for change while caught up
in a power process as secretive and patriarchal as the
selection of the Pope.
Clark says: “The film conveys
how tough it is to break the remaining glass ceilings. May
it motivate future generations of women to keep at
it!”
Preston: “The film asks the question - what will
it take for women to become global leaders.”
MY YEAR
WITH HELEN was funded by NZ Film Commission, NZ On Air and
private investors.
Producer/director Gaylene Preston,
co-producer Catherine Madigan, executive producer Alexander
Behse, associate producer Tim Riley, editor Paul Sutorius,
composer Jan Preston, cinematography by Sam Russell, Colin
Sonner, Gaylene Preston. Australia & New Zealand
distribution: Transmission.
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