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RobinLaing

  • Producer
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Robin Laing began producing films in 1985 with Mr Wrong, the first of many projects she worked on with director Gaylene Preston. Her CV also includes acclaimed miniseries Bread & Roses, short films (Stroke) and documentaries (The Heart Dances, Putting Our Town on the Map). In 1993 Laing was named a Member of the British Empire (MBE) for her services to the New Zealand film industry.

Screenography

Poppy
2021 Producer Film
The Vintner's Luck
2009 Producer Film
Perfect Strangers
2004 Producer Film
The Making of Perfect Strangers
2004 Producer, Subject Short film

Biography

Robin Laing has worked as a producer on everything from haunted car tale Mr Wrong to pool movie Stickmen. She has worked on documentaries and dramas — her longtime interest in telling Kiwi stories is evident in Sonja Davies miniseries Bread & Roses and WWII tale Absent Without Leave.

Awards

1993 Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
For services to the film industry

1990 New Zealand Film Awards
Nominated for Best Film: Ruby and Rata

1989 Chicago International Film Festival
Gold Plaque: Victory Over Death

“In the chaos which is filmmaking, Robin Laing provides an oasis of reason and practicality matched with a fine creative sensibility. [...] I have no idea how I’d manage without her. ”

— Gaylene Preston

Related images

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Producer Robin Laing in a newspaper photo taken around the time of her first collaboration with director Gaylene Preston, Mr Wrong (1985).
Photographer Nigel Marple. Kindly provided by The Dominion Post
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Producer Robin Laing and director Gaylene Preston with the old Jaguar that terrorises its new owner in Mr Wrong (1985), their first movie. The photo was taken for Wellington's Dominion newspaper.
Photographer Don Roy. Kindly provided by The Dominion Post
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Four of the women behind Bread & Roses (1993): from left to right, writer/director Gaylene Preston, executive producer Dorothee Pinfold and producer Robin Laing. Seated is Sonja Davies, whose life was dramatised for the series.
Photograph by Guy Robinson
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Three women promoting their first movie Mr Wrong (1985): (from left) writer/director Gaylene Preston, lead actor Heather Bolton and producer Robin Laing.
Kindly provided by The Dominion Post
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Producer director team Robin and John Laing.
Photographer: Michael Smith. Kindly provided by The Dominion Post