{"id":450644,"date":"2026-05-29T06:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T06:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/450644\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T06:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T06:19:08","slug":"ardern-documentary-prime-minister-wins-emmy-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/450644\/","title":{"rendered":"Ardern documentary Prime Minister wins Emmy award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">To take out the top prize at the specialist Emmy Awards, Prime Minister beat Black Snow, Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time, Life After, 2000 Meters to Andriivka, Turning Point: The Vietnam War and Union.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"The film also won the award for outstanding politics and government documentary. Photo \/ Universal Pictures Content Group\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>The film also won the award for outstanding politics and government documentary. Photo \/ Universal Pictures Content Group<\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">The film features home videos shot by Ardern\u2019s husband, Clarke Gayford, and previously unheard audio clips recorded by the Alexander Turnbull Library\u2019s Political Diaries project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">When the film was nominated in early April, Gayford shared a video to social media saying how the film captured some of the toughest times in their lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt was awful in places,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cFor one reason or another, I decided to pick up a camera, and film parts of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">When the film premiered at Sundance, reviews were mixed.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Prime Minister won a prestigious award at Sundance Film Festival. Photo \/ Magnolia Pictures\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Prime Minister won a prestigious award at Sundance Film Festival. Photo \/ Magnolia Pictures<\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/jacinda-ardern\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/jacinda-ardern\/\">Ardern<\/a> spoke during an interview for the Sundance Film Festival shortly after she saw the film for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI cried through most of it, and I\u2019m not sure if that\u2019s equivalent to laughing at your own jokes. I was very emotional watching it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI credit the storytellers for it. I hoped that the film would humanise politicians, those who are public servants, and leadership, but I never thought it would humanise me. When I watched it, I just saw myself as someone who was trying to do their best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">Since she stepped down as Prime Minister and leader of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/politics\/former-labour-ministers-dismiss-mps-critique-of-dame-jacinda-arderns-government\/E2AJLG6A3ZDIRF53IRMT5F7MGA\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/politics\/former-labour-ministers-dismiss-mps-critique-of-dame-jacinda-arderns-government\/E2AJLG6A3ZDIRF53IRMT5F7MGA\/\">Labour Party in 2023<\/a>, Ardern has been appointed to fellowships at Harvard University. She and her family are now based in Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">&#8211; RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To take out the top prize at the specialist Emmy Awards, Prime Minister beat Black Snow, Hurricane Katrina:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13176,2346,859,23372,156,424,6722,111,139,69,415,154770,6202],"class_list":["post-450644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ardern","tag-award","tag-documentary","tag-emmy","tag-entertainment","tag-life","tag-minister","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-prime","tag-reporters","tag-wins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}