Whale Rider

Trivia: Keisha Castle-Hughes did not know how to swim at the time this movie was made.

Trivia: At 13 years old, Keisha Castle-Hughes became the youngest ever nominee for Best Actress at the Oscars.

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Visible crew/equipment: In most of the sequences where Humpback whales are being photographed underwater, you can see the streams of bubbles that are released as the underwater crew exhales.

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Quotes

Koro: When she was born, that's when things went wrong for us.

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Answer: No, she doesn't die. Summary from Wikipedia: Paikia climbs onto the back of the largest whale and coaxes it to re-enter the ocean. The whale leads the whale pod back into the sea; Paikia submerges completely underwater before being thrown off the whale's back by the tide. The spectators fear she has drowned. When Paikia is found alive and brought to the hospital, her grandfather, Koro, declares her the new tribal chief. At the end, Paikia and her family are on the beach, watching the completed canoe being launched into the sea for its maiden voyage.

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