Niki Caro is an award winning film director, producer and screenwriter who was born in Wellington, New Zealand. Her most significant film to date is Whale Rider from 2002. It was critically praised and won a number of awards at international film festivals. She went on to direct Charlize Theron in an Oscar-nominated performance in North Country. Caro graduated BFA from the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland in 1988, and MFA from Swinburne University of Technology.

Directora neozelandesa nacida en Wellington. Ha dirigido las siguientes películas, Memoria y deseo (1997), Whale Rider (2002), largometraje de denuncia social en el que una niña maorí tendrá que hacer frente a su abuelo y la negativa de legarle el liderazgo de su pequeña comunidad por ser mujer; En tierra de hombres (2005), que narra la historia real de la primera mujer que en 1989 llevó, en Estados Unidos, a juicio un caso de acoso sexual; y The Vintner's Luck (2009).