Lucy Lawless directs documentary about fearless New Zealand camerawoman

Actress Lucy Lawless makes impressive directing debut with 'Never Look Away' about photojournalist Margaret Moth.

Margaret Moth appears in"Never Look Away," directed by Lucy Lawless, an official selection of the World Documentary Competition at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. was the first woman camera person in New Zealand. By 1990, she was covering the Persian Gulf War for CNN. New Zealand actress Lucy Lawless remembers when she became aware of Moth.

"We couldn't fit it all in the film," Lawless said."She just had the most extraordinary life. She just tore it up. She ate life, and she was part of something greater than herself in the end, from being a completely pleasure-loving, sex, drugs and punk music person to living to tell the story of the noncombatants of war and loving the children of war. That seems to me, to be an amazing and almost biblical transformation.

"I couldn't let somebody else tell the story because they wouldn't tell it the way I did," Lawless said."I didn't want it to be a hagiography because that's my compact with Margaret, that I would tell it warts and all as she would want and also be supremely nonjudgmental so that it's for the audience to decide how they feel about the lovers, the sex, the drugs, the punk clubs with 17-year-olds, the conflicts.

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