| Uniform Title |
Cousins (Motion picture : 2021) |
| Title |
Cousins. |
| Published |
[New Zealand] : Distributed by Vendetta Films, ©2021. |
| ©2020. |
| Description |
1 DVD-video (94 minutes) : sound, colour ; 12 cm. |
| Notes |
Catalogued from container. |
| Vendetta Films : VF1843. |
| Originally released as a motion picture in 2021. |
| Based on the book of the same name by Patricia Grace. |
| Includes extra features |
| "Three cousins. Three journeys. Woven together through time."--Cover |
| Credits |
Directed by Ainsley Gardiner and Briar Grace-Smith ; screenplay by Briar Grace-Smith ; produced by Georgina Condor, Ainsley Gardiner and Libby Hakaraia. |
| Performers |
Briar Grace-Smith, Tanea Heke, Rachel House, Ana Scotney, Tioreore Melbourne, Sylvia Rands, Cian Elyse White, Erroll Anderson, Miriama Smith, Cohen Holloway, Chelsie Preston Crayford. |
| Summary |
Mata, Missy and Makareta. Three cousins. Three lives. Separated by circumstances, yet bound together by blood. Orphaned Mata believes she has no whanau and lives out her lonely childhood in fear and bewilderment. Back home on the land, educated Makareta flees an arranged marriage to study law and begin the search for her missing cousin. She leaves behind cheeky yet dutiful Missy who takes on her role of kaitiaki (guardian) of the land. As the years pass, loss of the family land seems imminent and the women's promise to bring their stolen cousin home seems more unlikely than ever, until a chance encounter changes everything. |
| Target audience note |
Censorship classification : M. |
| System details |
DVD video ; Dolby Digital 5.1 ; PAL ; Region 4 ; Anamorphic widescreen 2.00:1. |
| Language note |
In English and Maori with partial English subtitles. |
| Subjects |
Grace, Patricia, -- 1937- Film adaptations |
| Maori (New Zealand people) -- Social life and customs -- Drama |
| Women, Maori -- Social conditions -- Drama |
| Cousins -- Drama |
| Feature films -- New Zealand |
| Motion pictures, New Zealand |
| New Zealand -- Drama |
| Genre |
Domestic drama (Motion pictures) |
| Film adaptations |
| Feature films |
| Fiction films |
| Other Names |
Gardiner, Ainsley director, producer. |
| Grace-Smith, Briar director, screenwriter, actor. |
| Condor, Georgina producer. |
| Hakaraia, Libby, 1968- producer. |
| Heke, Tanea actor. |
| House, Rachel actor. |
| Grace, Patricia, 1937-. Cousins Motion picture adaptation of (work). |
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