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ScreenTalk Legends - Gaylene Preston

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Renowned director Dame Gaylene Preston got into filmmaking "by accident", while teaching art therapy in Britain in the mid 1970s. Her debut feature Mr Wrong earned widespread praise for its feminist take on thriller tropes. Preston explored themes of social justice and feminism in Sonja Davies drama Bread and Roses and comedy Ruby and Rata. Acclaimed documentary War Stories Our Mothers Never Told Us was inspired by her parents' lives, as was Home By Christmas. Her 2003 feature Perfect Strange...

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