Documentary about Sister Loyola Galvin

Tuesday, July 30th, 2013

Sister Loyola Galvin, from the Home of Compassion in the Wellington suburb of Island Bay, was named national NZ Gardener of the Year 2008 by NZ Gardener magazine, and interviewed twice by Kim Hill in 2008.

Filmmaker Jess Feast was inspired by those interviews to make a documentary film about Sister Loyola, Gardening With Soul, which receives its world premiere in Wellington on 27 July at the 2013 New Zealand International Film Festival.

Listen to interview with Jess Feast

Watch Trailer for Documentary

Additional reading

News category: News Shorts.

Tags: Home of Compassion, Loyola Galvin

The inheritance of Anzac Day

Each year the eve of Anzac Day is given over to the International Day of Multiculturalism and Diplomacy for Peace. This year the conjunction is particularly apposite at a time when the air is full of wars and rumours of Read more

Experts at Rome meet – delve into historical abuses of power

The nature of power and how the abuse of power has been dealt with in the past and present were the focus of an international conference in Rome attended by about a dozen scholars earlier this month. Experts in history, Read more

Gathered around the altar

“Without liturgical reform, there is no reform of the Church,” Pope Francis said emphatically last February during an address to the plenary assembly of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. His remarks came around the Read more

CathNews New Zealand