SOME THINGS ARE WORTH FIGHTING FOR

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1978 is a comedy-drama, coming-of-age, family movie. We follow the footsteps of the Ropata family in a rural Aotearoa New Zealand commutnity and the struggles of each family member in the tumulutous year of 1978. Our heroes are fighting for two causes - one set against the backdrop of the true,  historic New Zealnad Maori land protests, and the other against the landscape of a rural community fighting against closures that are forcing people to move to bigger cities. Nine children battle to save their contry school at an inter-school sports competition with comedic schemes reminiscent fo cunning kids in films like Home Alone or The Little Rascles. The story contains the coming-of-age adventures of films like Stand By Me and The Goonies. Simultaneously, two older brother grapple with their conflicting beliefs aroung the fight for their ancestral lands in a brotherhood conflict akin to movies like Backdraft and East of Eden. 1978 delivers two powerful and paralled intergenerational stories that carry the same univeral message of community, belonging and standing up for what you believe in.