A debut feature film from Chelsie Preston Crayford.
Set in a run-down Wellington villa in 2003, Caterpillar follows three women living separate lives under one leaky roof. Sixteen-year-old Cassie (Anais Shand) is all bravado and vulnerability, drifting into risky territory as she searches for belonging. Her mother Maxine (Marta Dusseldorp), 52, is a formidable single parent and filmmaker on the brink of a long-awaited breakthrough, finally offered a greenlight—if she can land a star. Holding everything together is Huia (Lisa Harrow), 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.
