Canterbury filmmaker returns to film festival for first time in 20 years
After a gap of two decades, Canterbury director Gillian Ashurst is back at the New Zealand International Film Festival.
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Snakeskin director on her career, breakfast with Redford, foraging with Gandalf
Since Snakeskin, Ashurst has directed a series of documentaries and a short film. Ashurst took a while to find filmmaking. She spent her high school years in Hornby after moving around New Zealand airbases as a young child with her Air Force father. After university, she travelled the world, working as a journalist, living on a houseboat on the Nile in Egypt and taking a classic road trip across America. At the age of 26 she returned to Christchurch and enrolled in film school. She immediately realised she had found her calling. “I just started living at film school. I filmed my own st...
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