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NZ acting royalty Chelsie Preston Crayford chats new 'auto-fiction' flick Caterpillar

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Fri, 29 May 2026, 4:10pm
Lisa Harrow as Huia in Caterpillar (2026), who hides her dementia diagnosis from the family.
Lisa Harrow as Huia in Caterpillar (2026), who hides her dementia diagnosis from the family.

NZ acting royalty Chelsie Preston Crayford chats new 'auto-fiction' flick Caterpillar

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Fri, 29 May 2026, 4:10pm

Set in a run-down Wellington villa in 2003, Caterpillar follows three women living separate lives under one leaky roof.

Sixteen-year-old Cassie is all bravado and vulnerability, drifting into risky territory as she searches for belonging. Her mother Maxine, 52, is a formidable single parent and filmmaker on the brink of a long-awaited breakthrough, finally offered a greenlight—if she can land a star. Holding everything together is Huia, Cassie’s grandmother, 80, whose life has been defined by quiet service to family and a private obsession with raising monarch caterpillars, dreaming of one day witnessing the legendary butterfly migration in Mexico.

Director Chelsie Preston Crayford joined Matt Heath and Tyler Adams on the show to chat about her new film Caterpillar. 

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