WHALE RIDER

Year: 2002
Reference: F56694
Media type: Moving image

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Year: 2002
Reference: F56694
Media type: Moving image

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Place of production: New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories: Feature
Duration: 1:37:00
Production company: South Pacific Pictures
Credits: Director: Niki Caro
Writer: Niki Caro
Producer: Tim Sanders
Producer: John Barnett
Producer: Frank Hubner
Based On The Book The Whale Rider: Witi Ihimaera
Director of Photography: Leon Narbey
Executive Producer: Bill Gavin
Executive Producer: Linda Goldstein Knowlton
Associate Producer: Witi Ihimaera
Music: Lisa Gerrard
Editor: David Coulson
Costume Designer: Kirsty Cameron
Production Designer: Grant Major
Casting: Diana Rowan
Iwi Consultants: Hone Taumaunu
Iwi Consultants: Carol Haapu
Cast: Keisha Castle-Hughes
Cast: Rawiri Patene
Cast: Vicky Haughton
Cast: Cliff Curtis
Cast: Grant Roa
Cast: Mana Taumaunu
Cast: Rachel House
Cast: Taungaroa Emile
Cast: Tammy Davis
Cast: Mabel Wharekawa-Burt
Cast: Rawinia Clarke
Cast: Tahei Simpson
Cast: Roimata Taimana
Cast: Elizabeth Skeen
Cast: Tyrone White
Cast: Taupua Whakataka-Brightwell
Cast: Tenia Mcclutchie- McClutChie-Mita
Cast: Peter Patuwai
Cast: Rutene Spooner
Cast: Riccardo Davis
Cast: Apiata Whangaparita-Apanui
Cast: John Sumner
Cast: Sam Woods
Cast: Pura Tangira
Cast: Jane O'Kane
Cast: Aumuri Parata-Haua
Funding: New Zealand Film Commission

“It is set in a small New Zealand coastal village where Maori claim descent from Paikea, the Whale Rider. In every generation, a male heir has succeeded to the chiefly title. The Chief's eldest son, Porourangi, fathers twins - a boy and a girl - but the boy and his mother die tragically in childbirth. The surviving girl is name Pai. Grief-stricken, her father leaves her to be raised by her grandparents, Koro and Flowers. Koro, the Chief, refuses to acknowledge Pai as the heir.

“Set at the East Coast town of Whāngārā, WHALE RIDER tells the tale of a young Māori girl, Pai (Keisha Castle-Hughes), who challenges tradition and embraces the past in order to find the strength to lead her people forward. Niki Caro's second feature is based on Witi Ihimaera's novel The Whale Rider. Coupling a specific sense of place and culture with a universal coming-of-age story, WHALE RIDER met with sizeable success worldwide, winning audience choice awards at Sundance and Toronto and its young star was nominated for an Academy Award.

“Festival/Awards: Toronto, People's Choice Award.” - New Zealand Film Commission; www.nzfilm.co.nz/film/whale-rider; 4/02/2014.