Fresh from its premiere run at the NZIFF we are thrilled to bring you a special fundraising screening of GRACE A Prayer for Peace at Shoreline Cinema followed by a cuppa and a chat with filmmaker Dame Gaylene Preston and artist Dame Robin White at Toi MAHARA.
Fully booked! Please email info@toimahara.nz if you would like to go on the waitlist.
About the film
GRACE A Prayer for Peace brings together filmmaker Dame Gaylene Preston and artist Dame Robin White (Ngāti Awa) — in an extraordinary collaboration. What begins as conversation evolves into a cinematic path across Aotearoa, Kiribati, and Japan, drawing rich connections between people, place, and art. This is not a biopic, but a creative exchange — anchored in Robin White’s practice and worldview, it becomes a deeply felt exploration of how we live, what we value, and what we choose to protect. Through White’s art, the voices of her collaborators across the Pacific, and Preston’s astute and considered lens, the film reckons with legacies of environmental destruction, displacement, and injustice. Yet GRACE never loses sight of beauty, humour, and the enduring search for peace. Strong, tender, and quietly transformative, it offers both a warning and a space for contemplation — an invitation to see more clearly, feel more deeply, and respond with humanity.
A mesmerising, immersive, experimental masterpiece. The camera moves like a paintbrush… So deeply moving and glorious. — Gemma Gracewood
Imbued with inventiveness, joy, good humour and energy. — Greg O’Brien
This is an absorbing, engrossing, moving and often very funny piece of work. Make sure you see it on the biggest screen you can. — Graeme Tuckett
About the event
The film starts at 10:30am at Shoreline Cinema followed by a Q & A with Gaylene and Robin at Toi MAHARA.
Tickets are $50/pp and include the 90minute screening, Q&A and refreshments. Funds raised will go towards new lighting for the gallery. Seats sell fast so book yours now!
Fully booked. Please email info@toimahara.nz if you would like to go on the waitlist.
Thanks to Shoreline Cinema and Graceful Distribution.