Synopsis
A film memoir based on filmmaker Gaylene Preston’s interviews with her father about his World War II experiences, reconstructed with actor Tony Barry as Ed Preston.
Weaving strands of poetic imagined drama, and archival footage into the interview, Preston presents both sides of her parents’ wartime marriage: the horror and hardship of battlefield and prison camp juxtaposed with the loneliness and grief of a young wife struggling with a newborn baby and a husband declared missing.
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About the Film
Gaylene Preston’s Home by Christmas is a love story based on the wartime marriage of her parents, Ed and Tui. With a loving and compassionate eye, her lifelong curiosity and special imagination, she reveals the two sides of a traumatic separation brought about by World War II.
Producer
Gaylene Preston, Sue Rogers