The House Within

Feature length documentary on internationally celebrated New Zealand writer Fiona Kidman, examining the way in which life and fiction collide and how they become inescapably braided together in time.

"At 84, Fiona Kidman has published more than 30 books of fiction, poetry, and memoir, and received a raft of the highest accolades here and abroad. As the New Zealand Listener put it, 'in her craft and storytelling and in her compassionate, gutsy, tough expression of female experience, she is the best we have.'

"In this gentle, meandering film, we’re shown a vocational life lived with conviction and courage, punctuated by loss. From precocious beginnings in rural Northland to her involvement with the New Zealand Women’s Liberation Movement, Fiona Kidman has always been propelled by her sense of the power of words to inspire change, and a nose for thinly veiled Kiwi conservatism." (Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival)

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