Whina (2022)

Directors

James Napier Robertson, Paula Whetu Jones

Cast

James Rolleston, James Tito, Kali Kopae, Miriama McDowell, Rena Owen, Vinnie Bennett

The story

The film chronicles the life of Whina Cooper as a Māori leader, wife and mother. These are interspersed with flashbacks of her leadership of the 1975 Māori Land March. The film begins with Whina and her family being embroiled in a land dispute with a Pākehā (New Zealand European) farmer named Bob Holland in their hometown of Panguru.

Genres

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