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Release Date: 2009

Cast: Malachi Ottley-Karena, Peter Ottley-Karena, Elias Ottley-Karena, Aurora Ottley-Karena, Corban Ottley-Karena, Salem Ottley-Karena, Colleen Ottley-Karena, Llewelyn Ottley-Karena

Categories: Movies, Culture & Society, Biography, Slice of life story, World cinema, Documentary, Interpersonal Relationships

This Way of Life is a New Zealand documentary film directed by Thomas Burstyn and produced by Barbara Sumner-Burstyn. It opened theatrically in Vancouver on October 3, 2009 at the Vancouver International Film Festival, Seattle on June 11, 2010 at the Seattle International Film Festival, and in New York City on July 30, 2010. It opened in Los Angeles on August 6, 2010 at the 14th Annual DocuWeeks. This Way of Life has also made the 2011 Oscar Documentary long list. Shot over four years, This Way of Life is an intimate portrait of Peter Ottley-Karena and his family. Masterful in the saddle... MORE

This Way of Life is a New Zealand documentary film directed by Thomas Burstyn and produced by Barbara Sumner-Burstyn. It opened theatrically in Vancouver on October 3, 2009 at the Vancouver International Film Festival, Seattle on June 11, 2010 at the Seattle International Film Festival, and in New York City on July 30, 2010. It opened in Los Angeles on August 6, 2010 at the 14th Annual DocuWeeks. This Way of Life has also made the 2011 Oscar Documentary long list. Shot over four years, This Way of Life is an intimate portrait of Peter Ottley-Karena and his family. Masterful in the saddle and Hollywood handsome, Peter lives by an internal code of values and honor largely lost in modern times. Though European, Peter was adopted into a Maori family and is Maori in all but skin. He is a horse-whisperer, philosopher, hunter, and builder, a husband and father. Despite seemingly overwhelming challenges, Peter refuses to compromise. Especially troubling to Peter is his broken relationship with his adopted father. Peter’s wife Colleen Ottley-Karena (Ngati Maniapoto) is the keeper of her family’s taonga tuku iho (heritage). A true matriarch, Colleen sees family as the center of the LESS