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From the documentary series Three New Zealanders, made to commemorate the 1975 International Year of Women, comes this fascinating interview with internationally acclaimed writer Janet Frame. Produced by Endeavour Films (John Barnett), it is a fresh, unhurried film based around Michael Noonan's substantial interview with Frame herself at her then-home on Whangaparoa Peninsula. The rare footage of Frame - here aged 50 - presents a confident writer in her prime, and negates any stereotypes about Frame's inarticulacy or shyness.
Three New Zealanders: Janet Frame is Endeavour Television's first documentary in the series of three made to mark United Nation's International Women's Year in 1975 - the other two are about ...
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A VICTIM OF CRUELTY AND JUDGEMENT., TODAY SHE WOULD BE CONSIDERED THE VICTIM OF BULLYING. TO FEEL SO ISOLATED AT A TIME WHEN DEATH WAS ALL AROUND HER AND THERE WAS NO ONE TO EXPRESS HER SORROW AND PAIN TO MUST HAVE DRIVEN THE THERMOMETER OF ANGUISH TO A HIGH TEMPERATURE OF DEPRESSION IN HER YOUNG MIND. SHE IS A TRUE NEW ZEALAND HERO FOR ALL THE GIRLS WHO ARE LONELY,SHY AND UNPOPULAR. THIS EXAMPLE OF BRAVERY AND PERSISTENCE SERVES THE TRUTHS OF THE FACTS THAT THE WAY YOU FEEL OR THE WAY YOU ARE PERCEIVED BY OTHERS DOES NOT MATTER. JANE SAW HERSELF A POET,DID THE WORK AND ALTHOUGH SHE WAS THE MOST UNLIKELY WOMAN TO ACHIEVE TRUE .LITERARY STARDOM,SHE PREVAILED AGAINST THE ODDS. JUST HAVE A LOVE AND RESPECT FOR HER THAT IS TRULY SINCERE. BLESS YOU,JANE
What an extraordinary woman she was. Almost pained in her expression of ideas, and yet so easily winging into laughter.
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angela petrillo
Posted at 07.54AM - 24.01.2012
quite a few years ago I first heard of author J. frame by watching "Angel at my Table" I then purchased her book "Owls do Cry" her life growing up as a child outside of her family was full of sadness, and I know alone,you tend to write ,and deep feelings make excellent writers. I wish I had the chance to have been able to write to her when she was still with us to tell her that I loved her short stories ,and her sensitivity I believe made her who she became in spite of all she had endured.