Kai Purakau

Gaylene Preston's insightful documentary about writer Keri Hulme was filmed two years after the writer's Booker Prize win for The Bone People. It is partly a love story to Hulmes hometown of Okarito and a musing on the writer's...
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Short 1987 Documentary 26.00 minutes
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A portrait of New Zealand writer Keri Hulme. She discusses her lifestyle and coping with success in Okarito in the South Island, her approach to her work and the inspiration she draws from the land and the sea. Includes extracts from her 1985 Booker Prize winning novel, The Bone people.

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Gaylene Preston

Producers

Gaylene Preston

Screenplay Writers

Gaylene Preston

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Leon Narbey | Cinematographer
Simon Reece | Editor

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