Uniform Title Whale rider (Motion picture) Title Whale rider / South Pacific Pictures, Apollomedia, Pandora Film present in association with The New Zealand Film Production Fund, The New Zealand Film Commission, NZ on Air and sponsored by Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen GmbH ; producers, Tim Sanders, John Barnett, Frank Hübner ; written and directed by Niki Caro

Published Los Angeles, CA : Shout! Factory, [2002] San Francisco, Calif. : Kanopy Streaming, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (102 minutes) : sound, color Summary 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 Notes Originally produced as a motion picture in 2002 From the book "The whale rider" by Witi Ihimaera Credits Director of photography, Leon Narbey ; editor, David Coulson ; music, Lisa Gerrard ; costume designer, Kirsty Cameron ; production designer, Grant Major Cast Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton, Cliff Curtis, Grant Roa, Mana Taumaunu, Rachel House Notes In English with optional English captions for the deaf and hard of hearing Online resource; title from title frames (Kanopy, viewed September 14, 2021) Nominated 2004 Academy Awards, Best Actress in a Leading Role Won 2003 BAFTA Awards BAFTA Children's Award, Best Feature Film Won 2003 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award, World Cinema Subject Grandparent and child -- New Zealand -- Drama Chiefdoms -- New Zealand -- Drama Māori (New Zealand people) -- Drama Whales -- Drama Chiefdoms Grandparent and child Māori (New Zealand people) Whales New Zealand Genre/Form Coming-of-age films Drama Feature films Fiction films Film adaptations Internet videos Video recordings for the hearing impaired Coming-of-age films. Film adaptations. Fiction films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Internet videos. Films de passage à l'âge adulte. Adaptations cinématographiques. Films de fiction. Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives. Vidéos sur Internet. Form Streaming video Author Caro, Niki, 1967- film director, screenwriter. Sanders, Tim (Film producer), film producer. Barnett, John, 1945- film producer. Huebner, Frank, film producer. Castle-Hughes, Keisha, 1990- actor. Paratene, Rawiri, actor. Haughton, Vicky, actor. Curtis, Cliff, 1968- actor. Motion picture adaptation of (work): Ihimaera, Witi, 1944- Whale rider. South Pacific Pictures (Firm), production company. ApolloMedia (Firm), production company. Pandora Film (Firm), production company. New Zealand Film Commission, production company. Shout! Factory (Firm), publisher. Kanopy (Firm), distributor.

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