Crocodile at Dok Incubator in the Czech Republic
Selected for the 2025 INT workshop ~ Crocodile /NG, NZ/ 🛸 directors: Pietra Brettkelly, The Critics, editor: Chia Chi Hsu, producers: The Critics, Pietra Brettkelly 👉🏼 Armed with a single mobile camera, failing electricity and wild imaginations, CROCODILE is the coming-of-age story of nine young Nigerians who discover their voice in sci-fi filmmaking. Saturated in …
NZIFF Catches up with Arts Laureates
Catching Up with Arts Laureates Pietra Brettkelly and Florian Habicht “We caught up with 2019 recipient Pietra Brettkelly and 2021 recipient Florian Habicht.” 2019 Award Recipient Pietra Brettkelly Pietra Brettkelly is always chasing her next idea and her latest project, Crocodile, has been bubbling away for more than four years. Crocodile tells the story of …
WIFT Conversation Event Mar 2023
In Conversation with Pietra Brettkelly Christchurch director Vanessa Wells will facilitate the discussion where Pietra will be shedding light on: Why she chose documentary as the medium for her storytelling; What makes a great documentary idea; How to craft a powerful narrative within documentary; How to navigate the funding process for documentary projects; How to nurture a …
Grey Areas Podcast hosted by Petra Bagust
Episode 08: Living off-script | Pietra Brettkelly + Sandy Burgham Meet my mates living life to the beat of their own drums 🥁 Bagust says “Meet two of my awesome mates, Pietra Brettkelly and Sandy Burgham, who are two fabulous wāhine living life to the beat of their own drums, and saying No to the …
Arts Foundation 2019 Interview
We talk with the 2019 Arts Foundation Laureate receiving the Dame Gaylene Preston Award for Documentary Film Makers. “How did you first get interested in documentaries? I remember I used to watch the Wonderful World of Disney on a Sunday night when I was 11 or 12. They were traditional nature documentaries, Jacques Cousteau, that …
Arts Laureate of New Zealand
Last night this fabulous thing happened, I was made an Arts Laureate of New Zealand, awarded to me by the lovely Dame Gaylene Preston… absolutely chuffed.
NZ International Film Festival 2018
Yellow is Forbidden is at the NZ International Film Festival in Auckland and 12 other locations. If you are in Auckland – at the first two NZIFF screenings (both Civic Theatre) screenings will be followed by a Q+A in the Wintergarden. “In Guo Pei she meets a subject fit for the times. The contemporary hankering …
Spring and Tribeca
En route to my film’s last screening at Tribeca Film Festival in New York I walked through the spring of Central Park. And a little boy came to show me the mosquito he’d caught, in a jar, that he was feeding a tulip flower. I asked him to take my photo with the blossoms. And …
Yellow is Forbidden at Tribeca Film Festival in New York
Tribeca Film FestivalA radio interview today. “Yellow is Forbidden, has just become the first New Zealand film to screen in competition at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival in New York. The documentary focuses on the extraordinary story of Chinese fashion designer, Guo Pei, the daughter of a communist soldier and a teacher, who counts Rihanna …