Don't Let It Get You: Memories-Documents

1999

Don't Let It Get You is the 'autobiography' of one of New Zealand's most important film makers – and much more than that.

John O'’Shea shares his extraordinarily frank insights into the making of key New Zealand films such as Broken Barrier, Runaway and Don’'t Let It Get You, and seminal documentaries like the landmark television series Tangata Whenua.

Illustrated with 170 evocative photographs, Don't Let It Get You reads like an exceptionally well-edited screen documentary. O’'Shea’s witty and passionate text moves fluidly between past and present, between films and personal experiences, between a lifetime’'s moviegoing and a lifetime’'s concern for social justice.