Broadcast premier of Whale Rider on KUAC TV 9

Submitted by Ann Dowdy
Phone: 907-474-1890
07/08/05

The award-winning, critically acclaimed WHALE RIDER is a cinematic re-telling of a Maori legend. The film headliners Keisha Castle-Hughes as Pai, with three of New Zealand’s most distinguished actors: Rawiri Paratene as Koro, Vicky Haughton as Nanny Flowers and Cliff Curtis as Porourangi, Pai’s father. Winner of audience awards at the Sundance, Toronto and Rotterdam Film Festivals, WHALE RIDER is a radiant story about an exceptional girl’s coming of age and of a proud Maori community’s struggle to embrace new ways of thinking.

WHALE RIDER premieres on KUAC TV 9, Sunday, July 24 at 8 p.m.