'I'm Not Doing This': Ardern Reflects on Life Captured on Film

Review: 'Prime Minister' brings the stirring run of New Zealand's progressive leader Jacinda Ardern to life

Jacinda Ardern was elevated to her nation's highest office with dizzying speed. As chronicled in this sharp documentary, she made the opportunity count.

'I'm not doing this': Ardern reflects on life captured on film

Somewhere on the cutting-room floor of Prime Minister , a new documentary about Dame Jacinda Ardern’s fraught five-and-a-half years leading New Zealand...

Jacinda Ardern Documentary ‘Prime Minister’ Shows Us How the New Zealand Leader Is the Anti-Trump

On June 10 at a packed auditorium in Marina Del Rey, California, the former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern (2017-2023) comforted a room full of anxious Americans by showing them what empathetic leadership looks like. She was answering questions from Rachel Bloom at Live Talks Los Angeles about her new memoir “A Different Kind of Power.” She is also the subject of the Sundance World Cinema audience-award-winning documentary “Prime Mini…

God Defend New Zealand

Prime Minister by Rachel Willis New Zealand’s former prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, is the subject of directors Lindsay Utz and Michelle Walshe’s documentary, Prime Minister. The film starts with Ardern’s election as leader for her country’s Labour Party, seeking to rescue it from gloomy poll numbers. That she actually wins the position of Prime Minister just a few weeks later comes as a bit of a shock, most of all to Ardern. Ardern is an inter…

“Prime Minister”: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Leader Who Champions Kindness

(L–R) Lindsay Utz, Michelle Walshe, and The Right Honourable Dame Jacinda Ardern attend the 2025 Sundance Film Festival premiere of “Prime Minister” at Eccles Theatre on January 24, 2025, in Park City, UT. (Photo by George Pimentel/Shutterstock for Sundance Film Festival) By Lucy Spicer“It’s quite a lot to watch yourself on a screen,” says The Right Honourable Dame Jacinda Ardern to audience laughter at the…

Interview: Lindsay Utz and Michelle Walshe on "Prime Minister"

The co-directors of this thrilling profile of Dame Jacinda Ardern talk about their unprecedented access to intimately witness history. The post Lindsay Utz and Michelle Walshe on the Heart of a Leader in “Prime Minister” appeared first on The Moveable Fest.