Claudia Pond Eyley Author & Illustrator

Claudia Pond Eyley is a visual artist and film maker. She studied at Elam and has lectured at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author, with Robin White, of 28 Days in Kiribati (New Women's Press, 1987) and Protest at Moruroa (Tandem Press, 2006) and her documentaries include Departure and Return: The Final Journey of the Rainbow Warrior

Dan Salmon is a multi-award-winning director and producer of documentary (Made in Taiwan, Here to Stay) and drama (Licked, The Day Morris Left). His documentaries have screened on TVNZ, ABC, Al Jazeera and EBS in Korea, and at festivals in Tahiti, Canada and the United States. Pond Eyley and Salmon’s documentary Helen, for which the interviews for this book were made, was screened on television in August 2013 and December 2014, as well as at the 2014 Documentary Edge Film Festival.