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Movie Director: Niki Caro

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.

Movie actors: Castle-Hughes Keisha (Paikea), Paratene Rawiri (Koro), Haughton Vicky (Nanny Flowers), Curtis Cliff (Porourangi), Roa Grant (Uncle Rawiri), Taumaunu Mana (Hemi), House Rachel (Shilo), Emile Taungaroa (Willie), Davis Tammy (Dog), Wharekawa Mabel (Maka), Clarke Rawinia (Miro), Simpson Tahei (Miss Parata), Taimana Roi (Hemi’s Dad), Skeen Elizabeth (Rehua), White Tyronne (Jake),

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