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Thursday, 11 March 2021, 7:33 am
After
capturing the hearts of audiences and critics around the
nation and the world, Aotearoa created series
Rūrangi has secured a major victory
with the news that Season 1 is hitting streaming services
both here and abroad – available for streaming exclusively
with NEON in New Zealand in May 2021 and on Hulu in the USA
in June 2021. Rūrangi has also been sold to Peccadillo
Pictures in the UK who are aiming to release Rūrangi later
in 2021, and Rialto Channel will be screening Rūrangi in
New Zealand from June.
After skipping town a decade
ago, transgender activist Caz Davis returns to the remote,
Rūrangi was screened as part of the Berlinale Series Market
Disney-owned streamer Hulu has acquired a groundbreaking drama series about a New Zealand transgender activist’s efforts to reconnect with his father.
Rūrangi follows trans activist Caz Davis, who returns to the rural dairy community he fled 10 years earlier, hoping to reconnect with his father who hasn’t heard from him since before Caz transitioned.
As father and son slowly reconcile, Caz finds himself swept up in the environmental fight that is dividing the town. A second season of the series is currently in development.
The five-part series, which has also been packaged as a feature film and is currently on theatrical release in New Zealand, is directed by Max Currie and was created and written by trans activist Cole Meyers and Oliver Page.
Blast from the past: 2020 in review with Rotorua Weekender
23 Dec, 2020 06:56 PM
6 minutes to read
Western Heights High School student Zach Jans was the Senior Composition winner in the 2020 NZCT Chamber Music Contest. Photo / File
Shauni James is the Rotorua Weekender reportershauni.james@nzme.co.nz@thedailypost
It has been one crazy year, full of challenges, hope and the community rallying around each other. Rotorua Weekender editor Shauni James takes a look at some of the highlights from the newspaper s coverage over 2020.
January
- Sustainable Backyards shared information on what environmental events they would have coming up.
Rotorua s Kymbali Dender went to South Africa as a volunteer to help rescue coastal birds. Photo / File