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By Joanne Hilty
Special to the Rappahannock News
After sweeping audience awards at the Sundance, Tbronto and Rotterdam festivals, “Whale Rider” has become a worldwide phenomenon.
Like “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” and “Bend It Like Beckham,” it parlays girl power, multicultural spice, and storytelling punch into a sleeper hit that is both artful and exciting entertainment.
Filmed in New Zealand and directed by Niki Caro, “Whale Rider” stars Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton and Cliff Curtis. The Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community is showing this film at The Theatre on Gay Street in Washington on Friday, Jan. 16 at 8 p.m.
In a dwindling Maori coastal community, the aged patriarch Koro awaits the birth of a grandson to carry on a line reaching back to the primal ancestor Paikea, who, legend says, arrived on the back of a whale. Disaster strikes when the heir apparent dies, and his twin, a girl named Pai, survives.
As she nears adolescence, Pai (Keisha Castle-Hughes in a sensational debut) shows a natural aptitude for
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