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In Conversation…Gaylene Preston and Deborah Shepard
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Renowned filmmaker and producer Gaylene Preston
(left, above) comes from Wellington for a conversation with author Deborah Shepard
(right, above).
Gaylene’s work ranges across fiction and non-fiction,
television and film - often drawing on the stories of working class women and
men. She is renowned for her documentaries, a highlight being the popular
cinema documentary War
Stories: Our Mothers Never Told Us. Her latest work, currently
screening on TV3, is Hope
and Wire, a drama series about psychological and social
disruption in the aftermath of the 2010-2011 Christchurch earthquakes.
Deborah Shepard is a film historian, biographer and life
writing mentor, who recently ran a series of master classes in writing memoir
at the Michael King Writers’ Centre. She held a residency at the centre in
2013, working on a book about the art and craft of memoir. Her books
include Reframing
Women: A History of New Zealand Film, Between the Lives: Partners in Art
and Her Life's Work.
When: Sunday July 27, 4 pm
Where: Michael King Writers’ Centre, Takarunga Mt Victoria, Devonport Entry by koha ($5) Bookings recommended
Ph: 09 445 8451
E: assistant@writerscentre.org.nz |
Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.
Friday, July 18, 2014
In Conversation…Gaylene Preston and Deborah Shepard
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