Gone Up North for a While
{{short description|1972 New Zealand film}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2019}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Gone Up North for a While
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| director = Paul Maunder
| producer = Ron Bowie
| writer = Paul Maunder
| starring = Denise Maunder
Paul Holmes
| music =
| cinematography = Lynton Diggle
| editing = Sam Pillsbury
| production_companies = National Film Unit
| distributor = New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation
| released = {{Film date|1972}}
| runtime = 37 minutes
| country = New Zealand
| language = English
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Gone Up North for a While is a 1972 New Zealand film directed by Paul Maunder.{{cite web |title=Gone up North for a While |url=https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/gone-up-north-for-a-while-1972 |website=NZ On Screen |publisher=Archives New Zealand |access-date=6 January 2023 |date=1972}}{{cite news |title=Unmarried mothers |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19720710.2.36 |access-date=10 January 2023 |work=Papers Past |issue=32964,Vol CXII |publisher=The Press |date=10 July 1972 |page=4}}
Synopsis
Patricia Davis falls pregnant and goes against the advice of her family and unsympathetic welfare authorities by keeping her baby. This is followed by misery and hardship.{{cite web |url=https://acmi.net.au/works/68131--gone-up-north-for-a-while/ |title=Gone up north for a while |author=ACMI |access-date=25 January 2023 |publisher=Australian Centre for the Moving Image}}
Cast
{{Cast list|
- Denise Maunder as Patricia Davis
- Marian Rowe as Nurse
- Paul Holmes as Boyfriend
- Grant Tilly as Doctor
- Jean Betts as Girlfriend
- Russell Duncan
- Anne England
- Dell King as Welfare officer
- Jacqui Jones
- Michael Haigh as Personnel officer
- Ngaire Horton as Woman
- Darien Takle as Nurse
- John Anderson
- Gael Anderson
- Bruce Briggs
- Jennifer Ward-Lealand as Child
- Conrad Lealand
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Reviews
This film stirred up public debate for the Domestic Purposes Benefit for single mothers - "...is an important part of our screen history...".{{clarify|reason=un-attributed quote|date=April 2025}}{{cite web |title=Before she was famous: Jennifer Ward-Lealand in Gone Up North for a While |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/81832409/before-she-was-famous-jennifer-wardlealand-in-gone-up-north-for-a-while |website=Stuff |publisher=Stuff |access-date=25 January 2023 |date=6 July 2016}}
The film won the award for best drama and the arts at the 1973 Feltex Television Awards.{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19730220.2.28 |title=Films share TV award |date=20 February 1973 |work=The Press |volume=113 |issue=33155 |page=3 |access-date=15 January 2023}}
It was shown at the 1974 Chicago International Film Festival.
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