Journey to Ihipa

Director’s Notes - Nancy Brunning In 2004 I read an early draft of Journey to Ihipa. I said to myself, if I were a filmmaker, I’d want to direct this one. I had directed for theatre before but never for film, and what...
New Zealand Production
Short 2008 Drama 15.00 minutes
Ihipa Key Image fixed 3 MG
When a young soldier dies during WWII, extended Māori family protect the bloodline by taking his baby son from his European mother. His mother spends her whole adult life hoping her son will return to his Māori home, but when he finally does, the reconciliation is not what she had imagined.
2008 - New Zealand International Film Festivals

Directors

Nancy Brunning

Producers

Makerita Urale

Screenplay Writers

Vicki-Anne Heikell

Executive Producers

Catherine Fitzgerald

Cast

Elizabeth McRae
Gladys Matenga
Nathaniel Lees
Brownie

Crew

Davorin Fahn | Director of Photography
Chris Todd | Editor

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