Best Arts and Music Documentary at Millennium Docs
Last week we won Best Arts and Music Documentary at Millennium Docs Against Gravity, Warsaw and we pre-recorded a thank you. CHOPIN’S NOSE AWARD This year’s festival also presented the Chopin’s Nose Award and €2,000 for the best film about music and art. Jury: Eliza Kącka, Lidia Popiel, Bartek Wąsik. Winner: “Crocodile”, dir. Pietra Brettkelly, …
CROCODILE World Premiere at Berlinale Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
CROCODILE releases to sold out audiences and standing ovations at Berlinale Film Festival. Directed by The Critics and Pietra Brettkelly #crocodilethefilm premiered Berlinale Film Festival February 2026. Follow along for the latest news on insta @crocodilethefilm “A few months ago, we scrolled through old posts on our Facebook page and saw an announcement we had …
NZ International Film Festival Catches Up with Arts Laureates
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 nine brothers, sisters and cousins aged five to 19 who live in a small town of Kaduna (English translation is Crocodile), in the …
WIFT Conversation Event March 2023
In Conversation with Pietra Brettkelly Christchurch director Vanessa Wells facilitates a discussion where Pietra sheds 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 sustainable career …
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 …
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 …
Pietra Brettkelly named 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, NYC
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 …