Helen Clark to Answer Questions on MY YEAR WITH HELEN Movie

March 7, 6pm, Reading Cinemas Courtenay Central

Former Prime Minister Helen Clark will be in Wellington on March 7 for a special screening of the Gaylene Preston movie MY YEAR WITH HELEN, which tracks her bid for UN Secretary General. Clark will be the star guest at the Q&A session to follow the screening.

The screening is a special presentation from Demand.Film in honour of International Women’s Day. It is the first time Helen Clark has been able to attend a Q&A session in New Zealand.

This homecoming screening will follow the International Premiere at the Athena Film Festival in New York on February 23, which Clark will also attend, along with director Gaylene Preston, who is honoured that the film has been selected by this prestigious festival which showcases films about strong and courageous women leaders in real life and the fictional world.

In 2017, My Year With Helen screened at Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Adelaide and Brighton (UK) Film Festivals as well as the New Zealand International Film Festival and a commercial cinema release in New Zealand.

The film has had a successful run of special event screenings attended by global influencers: San Francisco, Palo Alto (at the Google Campus), Fiji, Rarotonga, Cambridge UK and 3 screenings in London, as well as a private event in New York for those involved in the film. There are plans for further special event screenings in the USA, Europe and the UK this year with Helen Clark in demand to attend.

Bookings for Wellington on March 7: https://tickets.demand.film/event/3034

Athena Film Festival programme: https://athenafilmfestival.com/film/my-year-with-helen/

An excerpt of video from London special event screening Q&A:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi4Rumd4UgM

Official website (photos, reviews etc): https://myyearwithhelen.com

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-5BfdcsTpg&t=2s

MY YEAR WITH HELEN – SYNOPSIS

With unique access to high-ranking candidate Helen Clark, award-winning filmmaker Gaylene Preston casts a wry eye on proceedings as the United Nations turns itself inside-out choosing a new Secretary-General. Her cameras explore the cracks between the diplomats, the embedded press and feminist activists as they push for change while caught up in a power process as secretive and patriarchal as the selection of the Pope. An observational documentary, MY YEAR WITH HELEN travels alongside Clark as she works on global development issues as head of the UNDP while also campaigning for SG and staying in daily contact with her

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