Kids saving their school while Māori fight for their land—two rebellions, one explosive year.
When their small country school faces closure, country kids use whatever means necessary to save it while their older siblings do the same to keep their sacred lands during the historic NZ Aotearoa land protests of 1978.
Direction
Dual timeline weaving that never lets either story slack.
Acting
Child actors carrying political weight without precociousness.
Production
Period-accurate 1978 NZ detail down to the protest signs.
Director
Isaac Lee
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 1978 Bastion Point occupation was a 507-day protest that forced NZ to confront broken Treaty promises.
Director April Phillips cast actual descendants of Bastion Point protesters, including her own relatives.
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