Whale Rider
Whale Rider
Genres
Production Companies
- South Pacific Pictures
- Pandora Film
- ApolloMedia
- New Zealand Film Production Fund
- New Zealand Film Commission
- NZ on Air
- Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen
Overview
On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny.
"In the ways of the ancients she found a hope for the future."
Cast
Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton, Cliff Curtis, Grant Roa , View More
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
Crew
Niki Caro, Witi Ihimaera, Niki Caro, John Barnett, Lisa Gerrard , View More
Leon Narbey, David Coulson, Tim Sanders, Frank Hübner, Linda Goldstein Knowlton, Reinhard Brundig, Witi Ihimaera, Grant Major, Kirsty Cameron, Diana Rowan, Denise Kum, Sigmund Spath, David Madigan, Joan Scheckel, Gavin Strawhan, Riwia Fox, Christina Asher, Stuart Turner, Mark Harris, George Maihoefer, James Mok, Stephan Colli, Josef Steinbüchel, Mirko Reinhard, André Zimmermann, Wilmont Schulze, Stefan Korte
