Don't try and mimic men - how they operate, how they do business, how they direct, write or are creative. They are not perfect. Women do it all diffe…

- Pietra Brettkelly

It might sound crazy, but filming in a conflict zone, in Afghanistan, and being a female filmmaker was the easy part. I found people open and underst…

- Pietra Brettkelly

It's a privilege to have the career I have, to love every day and be following my passion, the stories that interest me, to remote locations and peop…

- Pietra Brettkelly

As a filmmaker coming from one of the youngest lands in the world, New Zealand - safe, green and democratic - I was intrigued by Afghanistan, with it…

- Pietra Brettkelly

In the Afghan people, I found the most resilient, welcoming people who, for the first time in my career, never judged me over my right to tell this s…

- Pietra Brettkelly