Today Tonight - Gaylene Preston and Keri Hulme

Well I see myself, when I'm making a documentary, as a catalyst for allowing people to tell their stories. And so I see myself basically...the filmmaker there is the midwife of the idea really...

– Filmmaker Gaylene Preston on making documentaries, near the end of this report

I'ts a message that we're sending over in a bottle really, except it'll be in a film can.

– Gaylene Preston, on making a documentary that will be seen by English television viewers

Well I was born in Greymouth and it's home really. I look at that sea out there and there's something about that sea that's the sea — and any other sea just isn't quite that sea. It's a funny thing, isn't it?

– Filmmaker Gaylene Preston on the West Coast