Maunga

(Mountain)

On Christmas Eve in 1944, Ania, a Polish orphan refugee and Sarah, a farm girl, discover their friend Tamati, a local Māori boy, broken and weeping at an ancestral cave in the thick forest at the base of the epic volcano, Mount Taranaki in New Zealand. 

He has just learned that his father has been killed in action in Italy and yearns to call his spirit home. But to do so, he needs the others to tell stories of their own loss. 

These three friends who have lost everything, on one night will become family. This night will define them forever.

CAST

Kawakawa Fox-Reo/Phoenix Connelly/Lara Strong

CREW

DIRECTORS: David Strong/Wanda Lepionka

WRITERS: David Strong/Wanda Lepionka

PRODUCERS: David Strong/Wanda Lepionka/Michelle Turner

CINEMATOGRAPHER: Richard Bluck NZCS

EDITOR: Paul Sutorius