Womb (Drama)
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Director: Ira Hetaraka
Producer: Amanda Jane Robinson
Screenwriter: Ira Hetaraka
Cinematographer: Raymond Edwards
Composer: Riki Gooch
Editor: Sophie Coombs
Production Designer: Wiesje ten Berge
Costume Designer: Ruby Tautuhi-Lloyd
Key Cast: Ngātai Hita,Chelsie Preston-Crayford,Te Arohanui Korewha,Jane Kirtley,Julie Wilson,Pounamu Hetaraka,Bruce Hopkins
A young Māori girl is caught in a racially loaded custody battle between her conservative adoptive parents and her birth mother.
Born of experiences that shaped her own childhood, Ira Hetaraka’s moving debut is a tough and tender exploration of family, cultural displacement and the ways in which systemic power continues to impose Western prejudices on First Nations peoples.