Niki Caro is film director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

, producer

Film producer

A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

 and screenwriter

Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

 who was born in Wellington, New Zealand. Her 2002 film Whale Rider was critically praised and won a number of awards at international film festival

Film festival

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Caro graduated BFA from the Elam School of Fine Arts

Elam School of Fine Arts

The Elam School of Fine Arts, founded in 1890 by John Edward Elam is a part of Auckland University. Students study degrees in fine art with an emphasis on a multidisciplinary approach.-History:...

 at the University of Auckland

University of Auckland

The University of Auckland is a university located in Auckland, New Zealand. It is the largest university in the country and the highest ranked in the 2011 QS World University Rankings, having been ranked worldwide...

 in 1988, and MFA from Swinburne University of Technology

Swinburne University of Technology

Swinburne University of Technology is an Australian public dual sector university based in Melbourne, Victoria. The institution was founded by the Honourable George Swinburne in 1908 and achieved university status in June 1992...

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Her first film, Memory and Desire, 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 went to diocesan school for girls in Auckland where she received an alumni award.

Filmography

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|2009
|The Vintner's Luck

The Vintner's Luck (film)

The Vintner's Luck is a film directed and co-written by New Zealand filmmaker Niki Caro. It is loosely based on the novel The Vintner's Luck by New Zealander Elizabeth Knox and had its international première at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2009...

|Director, Writer, Producer
|Based on the novel by Elizabeth Knox

Elizabeth Knox

Elizabeth Fiona Knox, ONZM, is an award-winning New Zealand writer. She has authored eight novels, an autobiographical trilogy of novellas, a fantasy duet for young adults, and a collection of essays...

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|2005
|North Country

North Country (film)

North Country is a 2005 American drama film directed by Niki Caro. The screenplay by Michael Seitzman was inspired by the 2002 book Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law by Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler, which chronicled the case of...

|Director
|Inspired by a book by Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler
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|2002
|Whale Rider
|Director, Writer
|Based on the novel by Witi Ihimaera

Witi Ihimaera

Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler, DCNZM, QSM , generally known as Witi Ihimaera , is a New Zealand author, and is often regarded as one of the most prominent Māori writers alive.-Biography:...

|http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298228/
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|1997
|Memory and Desire
|Director, Writer
|Based on a short story by Peter Wells

Peter Wells (New Zealand)

Peter Wells is an award-winning writer and filmmaker from New Zealand.Although today he is mainly known for his fiction, Peter Wells has explored his interest in gay and historical themes, in a number of expressive drama and documentary films since the 1980s.The first and last feature film made...

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|1994
|Sure to Rise
|Director, Writer
|Short
|http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0229756/
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External links

• Biography and screenography of Niki Caro on NZ On Screen
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