A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Gaylene Preston is a New Zealand filmmaker.
Art Direction:
1981 The Monster's Christmas
Cinematography:
1981 The Monster's Christmas
2017 My Year with Helen
Co-Producer:
1981 The Monster's Christmas
1986 Mr. Wrong
1990 Ruby and Rata
2017 My Year with Helen
Consulting Producer:
1981 The Monster's Christmas
1986 Mr. Wrong
1990 Ruby and Rata
2005 Breath of Peace
2011 Operation 8
2017 My Year with Helen
Director:
1981 The Monster's Christmas
1983 Making Utu
1986 Mr. Wrong
1987 Kai Pūrākau – The Storyteller
1990 Ruby and Rata
1993 Bread & Roses
1996 War Stories Our Mothers Never Told Us
2003 Perfect Strangers
2005 Breath of Peace
2006 Earthquake
2010 Home by Christmas
2011 Operation 8
2017 My Year with Helen
???? How I Threw Art Out The Window
Executive Producer:
1981 The Monster's Christmas
1983 Making Utu
1986 Mr. Wrong
1987 Kai Pūrākau – The Storyteller
1990 Ruby and Rata
1993 Bread & Roses
1996 War Stories Our Mothers Never Told Us
2003 Perfect Strangers
2005 Breath of Peace
2006 Earthquake
2010 Home by Christmas
2011 Operation 8
2012 Ellen Is Leaving
2016 Celeste
2017 My Year with Helen
2021 Jessica
???? How I Threw Art Out The Window
Producer:
1981 The Monster's Christmas
1983 Making Utu
1986 Mr. Wrong
1987 Kai Pūrākau – The Storyteller
1990 Ruby and Rata
1993 Bread & Roses
1996 War Stories Our Mothers Never Told Us
1999 Punitive Damage
2003 Perfect Strangers
2005 Breath of Peace
2006 Earthquake
2010 Home by Christmas
2011 Operation 8
2012 Ellen Is Leaving
2016 Celeste
2017 My Year with Helen
2021 Jessica
???? How I Threw Art Out The Window
Production Design:
1979 Middle Age Spread
1981 The Monster's Christmas
1983 Making Utu
1986 Mr. Wrong
1987 Kai Pūrākau – The Storyteller
1990 Ruby and Rata
1993 Bread & Roses
1996 War Stories Our Mothers Never Told Us
1999 Punitive Damage
2003 Perfect Strangers
2005 Breath of Peace
2006 Earthquake
2010 Home by Christmas
2011 Operation 8
2012 Ellen Is Leaving
2016 Celeste
2017 My Year with Helen
2021 Jessica
???? How I Threw Art Out The Window
Screenplay:
1979 Middle Age Spread
1981 The Monster's Christmas
1983 Making Utu
1986 Mr. Wrong
1987 Kai Pūrākau – The Storyteller
1990 Ruby and Rata
1993 Bread & Roses
1996 War Stories Our Mothers Never Told Us
1999 Punitive Damage
2003 Perfect Strangers
2005 Breath of Peace
2006 Earthquake
2010 Home by Christmas
2011 Operation 8
2012 Ellen Is Leaving
2016 Celeste
2017 My Year with Helen
2021 Jessica
???? How I Threw Art Out The Window
Writer:
1979 Middle Age Spread
1981 The Monster's Christmas
1983 Making Utu
1986 Mr. Wrong
1987 Kai Pūrākau – The Storyteller
1990 Ruby and Rata
1993 Bread & Roses
1996 War Stories Our Mothers Never Told Us
1999 Punitive Damage
2003 Perfect Strangers
2005 Breath of Peace
2006 Earthquake
2010 Home by Christmas
2011 Operation 8
2012 Ellen Is Leaving
2016 Celeste
2017 My Year with Helen
2021 Jessica
???? How I Threw Art Out The Window
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Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.