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
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.