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Wrote Variety's Peter Debruge: “Pietra Brettkelly’s enigmatic rendering…is not a straightforward artist’s profile, political commentary or domestic drama, but a poetic fusion of the three.” Still in Motion magazine wrote:“I felt I was in the hands of a master storyteller”.

Brettkelly's 2018 film YELLOW IS FORBIDDEN premiered In Competition and Opening Weekend at Tribeca Film Festival.  Vogue Magazine noted it was “A film that is… a celebration of how extraordinary women are”, and the film was selected for both the Best Foreign Language and Best Documentary sections of the Oscars.  The Sydney Morning Herald wrote: "Brettkelly's deliciously intimate film...a near visceral experience”.

A Flickering Truth was selected as the New Zealand entrant for the 2016 Best Foreign Language at the Oscars.

Brettkelly's film, A Flickering Truth, which documents the unearthing of the Afghan Film Archive in Kabul, Afghanistan, premiered at the 2015 Venice Film Festival and Toronto Film Festival to critical acclaim.  It received a four star review in The Guardian which described it as “an astounding film”.  The Hollywood Reporter's Deborah Young praised the film, describing it as "a documentary not just for archivists but for those who see film as a vital part of local culture" while Indiewire's Eric Kohn called the movie an "eye-opening documentary ... a moving navigation of Afghanistan’s past and present."

In 2012 Brettkelly's film MĀORI BOY GENIUS premiered In Competition at Berlin Film Festival.

Brettkelly's work is recognised for its considered quietness, a cinema verite approach that allows her subjects to tell their stories.  She famously was one of the first journalists to interview Colonel Gadaffi, for her first feature documentary 2003's BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD, during the negotiations over the lifting of the UN embargoes on Libya.

2003 BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD World Premier American Film Institute Film Festival in Los Angeles.

Pietra Brettkelly (born 1965) is a New Zealand filmmaker, known for her documentaries. She was a three-times Oscar-selected documentary filmmaker, a member of The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and was recently named an Arts Laureate of New Zealand. Her films have premiered in five of the world's six top film festivals – Sundance, Toronto, Venice, Berlin and Tribeca Film Festivals and garnered many awards. She is known for her independent, risk-taking style, which has taken her to nearly 100 countries