Shirley Horrocks is one of New Zealand’s leading social and arts documentary filmmakers. Her film portraits, revealing the personality and process of photographer Marti Friedlander, writer Albert Wendt and artist Len Lye, among others, have won awards and have screened at festivals around the world.
Often the people I've made documentaries about are out there, but perhaps they're not widely known. I wanted to get them more widely known because I think they really should be.
– Shirley Horrocks, NZ Herald, July 12, 2007