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Hot Words and Bold Retorts

2018 7m Short film
  • Documentary
  • NZ History

In this unique short film from Gaylene Preston, actors perfectly lip-sync to real life interviews from times past. Recalling the 1893 New Zealand general election  the first in which women had the vote  the four female interviewees give their accounts of that momentous milestone. Filmed in the historic Ewelme Cottage in Parnell, Auckland, actors Lucy Lawless, Miranda Harcourt, Jean Sergent and Chelsie Preston Crayford give life to the radio interviews that were recorded between 1947 and 1969. The film was created for an Auckland War Memorial Museum exhibition in 2018, on women and equality in Aotearoa.