“In the chaos which is filmmaking, Robin Laing provides an oasis of reason and practicality matched with a fine creative sensibility” comments Preston. “We have now made five features together. I have no idea how I’d manage without her.”

The Preston Laing working partnership started with Mr Wrong in 1984 and continued with Ruby & Rata, Bread and Roses, and now, Perfect Strangers.

In addition to her work with Preston, Robin Laing has produced four features, three short films (selected for Cannes, Sundance and Venice), four television dramas and seven television documentaries, including the Len Lye documentary Flip and Two Twisters (selected for the Paris Biennale) and McCahon documentary Victory Over Death, a Gold Award winner at Chicago.
She executive-produced Preston’s War Stories and Hamish Rothwell’s Stickmen.

Robin Laing is Chair of the Trust Board for the NZ Film and Television School, a Trustee for the New Zealand Film Festivals Trust, founding president of Women in Film and Television (Wellington) and recently represented the film sector on the Government’s Screen Industry Task Force. She has previously represented the Screen Producers and Directors Association on both the Copyright Council and Screenrights boards and has served two terms on the board of the New Zealand Film Commission.
In 1993 Laing was awarded a Member of the British Empire (MBE) for services to the New Zealand film industry.