Meet the director & producer of Cousins this Saturday March 6 at Whakamax! Ainsley Gardiner will join us at 5.45pm for a Q&A session before the screening. Book tickets to the 5.45pm screening to attend.
Tanea Heke (Waru), Rachel House (Hunt for the Wilderpeople) and Briar Grace-Smith (The Strength of Water) lead this time-transcending Māori drama based on Patricia Grace's novel about three cousins, separated by circumstance, and their long journey to find each other.
Meet the director & producer of Cousins this Saturday March 6 at Whakamax! Ainsley Gardiner will join us at 5.45pm for a Q&A session before the screening. Book tickets to the 5.45pm screening to attend.
Waru directors Briar Grace-Smith and Ainsley Gardiner helm this time-transcending Māori drama based on Patricia Grace's novel about three cousins, separated by circumstance, and their long journey to find each other. Grace-Smith co-stars with Tanea Heke (Waru) and Rachel House (Hunt for the Wilderpeople).
Mata (Heke), Missy (House) and Makareta (Grace-Smith). Three cousins. Three lives. Separated by circumstances, yet bound together by blood. Orphaned Mata believes she has no whānau and lives out her lonely childhood in fear and bewilderment. Back home on the land, educated Makareta flees an arranged marriage to study law and begin the search for her missing cousin. She leaves behind cheeky yet dutiful Missy who takes on her role of kaitiaki (guardian) of the land. As the years pass, loss of the family land seems imminent and the women’s promise to bring their stolen cousin home seems more unlikely than ever, until a chance encounter changes everything.
Meet the director & producer of Cousins this Saturday March 6 at Whakamax! Ainsley Gardiner will join us at 5.45pm for a Q&A session before the screening. Book tickets to the 5.45pm screening to attend.
Waru directors Briar Grace-Smith and Ainsley Gardiner helm this time-transcending Māori drama based on Patricia Grace's novel about three cousins, separated by circumstance, and their long journey to find each other. Grace-Smith co-stars with Tanea Heke (Waru) and Rachel House (Hunt for the Wilderpeople).
Mata (Heke), Missy (House) and Makareta (Grace-Smith). Three cousins. Three lives. Separated by circumstances, yet bound together by blood. Orphaned Mata believes she has no whānau and lives out her lonely childhood in fear and bewilderment. Back home on the land, educated Makareta flees an arranged marriage to study law and begin the search for her missing cousin. She leaves behind cheeky yet dutiful Missy who takes on her role of kaitiaki (guardian) of the land. As the years pass, loss of the family land seems imminent and the women’s promise to bring their stolen cousin home seems more unlikely than ever, until a chance encounter changes everything.