Seven women talk candidly about their lives as air hostesses. From the halcyon days of flying with leisurely layovers in exotic locations, with money to spend and fun to be had, to a bitter struggle over equal rights and equal pay fought over thirteen years, which split their world apart. Coffee, Tea or Me? is charming, nostalgic, shocking, and at points, very, very funny.

Originally this documentary presented itself as simple nostalgia. A wry look at New Zealand air hostesses over the years; fashion, attitudes, stories from different decades. With this in mind, I drove to Auckland and took tea with a cross section of women who had been employed by any number of the early NZ airlines'. The fifty and sixty year olds, over a cup of tea, would hand me these very glamorous pictures of themselves as nubile young hosties, standing proudly in their crimpolene micro-minis, with beehive hairdos, racoon-eyed make up and false eyelashes. They looked so young and so perversely sexy.- Brita McVeigh