Niki Caro (born 1967) is an award winning film director, producer and screenwriter who was born in Wellington, New Zealand. Her most significant film to date is Whale Rider from 2002. It was critically praised and won a number of awards at international film festivals. She went on to direct Charlize Theron in an Oscar-nominated performance in North Country.
Caro's first movie was Memory and Desire, which was chosen for the New Zealand Prestigious Critics week in 1998. In 1999 the movie was voted best new film at the New Zealand Film Awards. She has been working for several years on a screen adaptation of Elizabeth Knox's novel The Vintner's Luck and will direct the film version in 2008.
Filmography
Year
Title
Credits
Notes
IMDB
2009
The Vintner's Luck
Director, Writer, Producer
To be based on the novel by Elizabeth Knox
2005
North Country
Director
2002
Whale Rider
Director, Writer
1997
Memory and Desire
Director, Writer
1994
Sure to Rise
Director, Writer
Short
References
^ Stacie Stukin (December 2003). "Niki Caro", Women of the Year 2003, Ms. Magazine. Retrieved on 2007-07-31.
^ "Keisha Castle-Hughes and Niki Caro reunite for Vintner's Luck", Feature, The New Zealand Herald (2007-05-22). Retrieved on 2007-09-11.
External links
Niki Caro at the Internet Movie Database
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