Movie Description
Caterpillar
(2026)Overview
Three generations living under one leaky Wellington roof in 2003, all on the brink of transformation. Sixteen-year-old Cassie is all bravado and vulnerability, drifting into risky territory as she searches for validation in all the wrong places. Her mother Maxine, 52, a formidable single-mother filmmaker on the brink of a long-awaited breakthrough, is finally offered a greenlight - if she can just land a star. Holding everything together is Huia, Cassie’s grandmother, 80, whose life has been defined by quiet service to family and a private obsession with raising monarch caterpillars, dreaming of one day witnessing the legendary butterfly migration in Mexico. But when Huia’s mind begins to fail her, the family is thrust into chaos. Can the maternal line hold together while everything is throwing them apart?
Featured Crew
- Director : Chelsie Preston Crayford
- Producer : Georgina Allison Conder,Andrew Marshall
- Writer : Chelsie Preston Crayford
- Editor : Jonathan Woodford-Robinson
- Cast : Marta Dusseldorp,Lisa Harrow,Anais Shand,Kirimaia Noel,Matt Whelan,Matty Rockel,Tanea Heke,Cohen Holloway,Tara Canton
Cast
Maxine
Huia
Cassie
Awhi
Cam
Mason
Waitress
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Facts
Original TitleCaterpillar
Status Released
Release Information
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2026-05-14
Original LanguageEnglish
Runtime 01h 37m
Production CompaniesMiss Conception Films,New Zealand Film Commission
Genres
- Drama
