Some of My Best Friends are Women
The same year the United Nations declared an 'International Year of Women', New Zealand held its first International Women's Film Festival. This groundbreaking feminist documentary debuted alongside two other local films. Expat Irish/Scot filmmaker Deirdre McCartin presents three candid interviews across generations of Kiwi women. Trade unionist and grandmother Flo Humphries recalls the shame heaped on female divorcees in the 1940s; librarian and solo mum Mag Freeman celebrates hard-won self-confidence, and student Kirsten Warner is scathing about the career options offered at school.
- Runtime
- 31m
- Released
- 1975
Details
Release year: 1975
Storyline
The same year the United Nations declared an 'International Year of Women', New Zealand held its first International Women's Film Festival. This groundbreaking feminist documentary debuted alongside two other local films. Expat Irish/Scot filmmaker Deirdre McCartin presents three candid interviews across generations of Kiwi women. Trade unionist and grandmother Flo Humphries recalls the shame heaped on female divorcees in the 1940s; librarian and solo mum Mag Freeman celebrates hard-won self-confidence, and student Kirsten Warner is scathing about the career options offered at school.
Top credits
- Dairne Shanahan — Self - Interviewer
- Mag Freeman — Self - Librarian
- Flo Humphries — Self - Trade Unionist
- Kirsten Warner — Self - Student