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.