Jacinda Ardern's cousins can stop asking about her doco now
Friends and family can finally stop pestering Jacinda Ardern about where they can watch her award-winning documentary.
Dame Jacinda Ardern’s documentary about her tenure at the helm of the country is being released more widely later this month.
Following its premiere at the Sundance Festival and screenings at the New Zealand International Film Festival, Prime Minister will be shown nationwide at cinemas from 25 September.
Dame Jacinda says the Sundance award-winning documentary offers an “intimate portrayal of my time in office”.
“My cousins can now officially stop asking me how they can see it,” the 45-year-old wrote in a Facebook post.
Featuring home footage shot by her husband Clarke Gayford, the documentary showcases what it means to navigate a country through significant crises while balancing the realities of new motherhood, co-directors Michelle Walshe and Lindsay Utz say.
Since leaving politics, Dame Jacinda has spent time in the United States working for Harvard University and is a trustee of Prince William's Earthshot Prize.
She also joined Oxford University's Blavatnik School of Government as a Distinguished Fellow and member of the World Leaders Circle.
Earlier this year, she also released a “deeply personal memoir”, A Different Kind of Power, covering her Mormon upbringing, rise to power in 2017, her fertility treatment and pregnancy, a cancer scare, and navigating crises like the Christchurch mosque terror attacks, Whakaari White Island eruption and the Covid-19 pandemic.
Prime Minister screens nationwide from 25 September.
