: Leadership has historically passed to the first-born male heir. When Pai’s twin brother dies at birth, her grandfather Koro refuses to recognize her potential as a leader because she is female.
: The film explores leadership emerging in an unconventional form, showing a girl’s quiet determination to fulfill a destiny denied to her by gender. Production & Cinematic Features Whale Rider - A Production by South Pacific Pictures
: The tribe claims descent from Paikea, an ancestor who rode a whale from Hawaiki to New Zealand.
Subtitle — Whale Rider
: Leadership has historically passed to the first-born male heir. When Pai’s twin brother dies at birth, her grandfather Koro refuses to recognize her potential as a leader because she is female.
: The film explores leadership emerging in an unconventional form, showing a girl’s quiet determination to fulfill a destiny denied to her by gender. Production & Cinematic Features Whale Rider - A Production by South Pacific Pictures subtitle Whale Rider
: The tribe claims descent from Paikea, an ancestor who rode a whale from Hawaiki to New Zealand. : Leadership has historically passed to the first-born