A contemporary story of love, rejection, and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.
Type:
MOVIE
Country:
NZ
Genres:
Drama, Family
Release:
January 2003
Production:
South Pacific Pictures, Pandora Film, ApolloMedia, New Zealand Film Production Fund, New Zealand Film Commission, NZ on Air, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen
Cast:
Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton, Cliff Curtis, Grant Roa, Mana Taumaunu, Rachel House, Taungaroa Emile, Tammy Davis, Mabel Wharekawa, Rawinia Clarke, Tahei Simpson, Roi Taimana, Elizabeth Skeen, Rutene Spooner, John Sumner, Jane O'Kane
Tags:
diving, becoming an adult, grandparent grandchild relationship, tradition, loss of loved one, ocean, whale, empowerment, new zealand, maori tradition, chief, modern society, canoe, patriarch, stick fighting, patriarchy, magic realism, woman director, swimming underwater, war dance, traditional dance
