HIROSHIMA EYE

Grace: A Prayer For Peace

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<Synopsis>

GRACE A Prayer for Peace is an audiovisual poem transforming the visual language of the artist Robin White into a sweeping cinematic journey of breathtaking luminosity.

For fifty years White has been travelling the Pacific using brush and knife to explore the world around her.

Elevating collaborations with local artists into powerful works made of tree bark, candlenut inks, and dirt – making friends and sharing her strong philosophy of the unity of humankind.

<Staff>

Director / Producer: Gaylene Preston
Co-Producers: Danny Bultitude and Susana Lei’ataua
Executive Producer: Catherine Madigan
Editors: Paul Sutorius, Lala Rolls
Composer: Jan Preston

<movie information>

Year of Production:2025
Running Time:96min
Country/Region:New Zealand
Language of Dialogue:English, Japanese, Te Reo Māori, Kiribati Language
Subtitle Language:Japanese
Film Rating:Not Rated

©︎Rebecca McMillan

＜Director＞

Dame Gaylene Preston

An adventurous, pioneering innovator, Dame Gaylene Preston has made some of the most enduring and popular classics of New Zealand cinema, presenting serious subjects with humour and warmth.
Her genre-bending spirit is reflected in feature films, documentaries, and television series as diverse as Mr Wrong, Home by Christmas, Perfect Strangers, and Hope and Wire — and in her Ockham - longlisted memoir Gaylene’s Take.

She is the New Zealand Arts Foundation's inaugural Filmmaker Laureate, the first recipient of the lifetime achievement award from Documentary Edge, a SPADA Industry Champion and a recipient of the Premium Moa award for services to cinema.

A lifetime honorary member of Women In Film and Television, in 2019 she was made a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit. In 2025, Gaylene received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Canterbury.