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Caterpillar
Film (Trailer) – 2026
Do you know, all the monarch butterflies travel to this one forest in Mexico, until it's just this incredible rain of butterflies...
– Grandmother Huia (Marta Dusseldorp) on the object of her fascination
If I don't make films... I start to die.
– Mother Maxine ( (Lisa Harrow) pleads her case for financing to a bank manager, in this trailer
The actual life event that inspired it was my grandma getting dementia and the fabric of our family changing forever ... I had to weave a story that told what our story was; we lost a key member of our family, and our family changed. And we had to learn where to go from being held by her to learn to hold her.
– Director and writer Chelsie Preston Crayford on the inspiration behind Caterpillar, New Zealand Listener, 30 January 2025
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