In amongst the dolled-up stars at the Academy Awards later this month will be one of very our own -- Kiwi producer Finola Dwyer.
Her film Brooklyn is up for three Oscars, including best film.
The story of a young Irish woman making a new life in New York is the story that's taken a New Zealand woman who made a new life in London to the Oscars.
"I felt it had the potential to go all the way and you never kind of say that out loud you just think it to yourself," says Ms Dwyer.
Wellington-born Ms Dwyer had her start editing Country Calendar -- now she's the co-producer of Brooklyn.
Ms Dwyer's been here before with An Education -- nominated for Best Film in 2010.
She says getting the nod is as good as the prize.
"We're not anticipating a win so what it means is we can just totally enjoy it."
She's far more optimistic for the film's star - Best Actress nominee Saoirse Ronan.
"She's got all the possibility of having Meryl Streep's career and more. I mean she's going to be the actress of her generation without a doubt," she says.
Brooklyn is about new culture, new adventure and new love. It's also about the lure of home when more than one place is home.
Ms Dwyer knows it well having moved from New Zealand - her mother knew it well having moved from Dublin.
"Going to New Zealand to Wellington in 1951, I don't think anything could have prepared her for that," she says.
In the film -- as in life -- there are defining moments that turn homesick into heartbreak.
"We all remember when my mother got the call that her mother had died. We'd never seen her cry before and we all sort of stood around the bed as she was face down sobbing," she says.
And when her own mother died recently the movie took on new meaning.
"I wanted to make it for her. She was so pleased and proud that I was finally doing something that had some connection to her homeland, she could never understand why it had taken me so long," says Ms Dwyer.
But here it is and dedicated to her mother -- a film that's close to home.
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