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It's been a red carpet reunion for two of the biggest names in Kiwi film.
Director Niki Caro and her muse Keisha Castle-Hughes are attending the premiere of Vintner's Luck at the Toronto Film Festival, as well as celebrating an anniversary.
"Today in fact is seven years to the day that Keisha and I brought Whalerider here, so there's a circularity about that, that I'm finding quite moving," says Caro.
"It's (the festival) very surreal actually, lots of memories flooding, lots of sort of deja vu," added Castle-Hughes.
Their new film is set in France but it's as Kiwi as, a home-grown classic novel that's become big picture.
"It's love, wine and angels, it's a very passionate film," Caro says.
Castle-Hughes, a young adult in life, is all grown up onscreen.
"It's not exploitative in any way. I'd take my grandparents," she says.
As red carpets go it's a relaxed affair, but its job is to make the Vintner's Luck stand out among the 360 or so other films at the festival.
"Being in Toronto is the best way to get to North American audiences, it's a great way to be visible and in front of people who are gonna pay to see it later on," says Graeme Mason of NZ Film Commission.
Having come full circle, the pair is now hoping for a little film-maker's luck with American audiences.
