Whale Rider

Niki Caro was the director of the movie we watched in class Whale Rider. She was born in 1967 in Wellington, New Zeleand. She is an award winning film director whose movie Whale Rider won a number of awards at international film festiviles. She has directed Charlize Theron who was nominated for an Oscar in the film she directed North Country. She is working on a new movie in 2008 to be based on a novel by Elizabeth Knox.