Niki Caro

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Female

Birthday

1966-09-20 (59 years old)

Place of Birth

Wellington, New Zealand

Niki Caro

Biography

Nikola Jean Caro MNZM (born 20 September 1966) is a New Zealand film, television, and music video director and screenwriter. Her 2002 film Whale Rider was critically praised and won a number of awards at international film festivals. She directed the 2020 live-action version of Disney's Mulan, making her the second woman and the second New Zealand director hired by Disney to direct a film budgeted at over $100 million. Caro's work ranged from music videos, commercials, and television dramas to films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Niki Caro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Production

2003

Whale Rider

as Screenplay

2003

Whale Rider

as Director

2005

North Country

as Director

2009

2009

1998

Memory & Desire

as Director

2015

McFarland, USA

as Director

2023

The Mother

as Director

2017

1994

Sure to Rise

as Director

2020

Mulan

as Director

-

Callas

as Screenplay

2010

2009

1990

1994

Sure to Rise

as Writer

1998

Memory & Desire

as Screenplay

-

Ruin

as Director

-

Ruin

as Producer

1990

Savage Rites: A South Sea Romance

as First Assistant Director

1990

1990

Savage Rites: A South Sea Romance

as Director of Photography

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