Both Sides of the Moon

Alan Duff is a New Zealand columnist, advocate, businessperson and the author of 11 novels. He is best known for his bestselling 1990 novel, Once Were Warriors, which won the PEN Best First Book for Fiction Award and was made into an internationally acclaimed film, for which Duff wrote the original screenplay. He subsequently wrote two sequels, What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? (1996), which won the Montana New Zealand Book Award for Fiction, and Jake's Long Shadow (2002). Other works include the novels Dreamboat Dad and One Night Out Stealing as well as a non-fiction book Maori: The Crisis and the Challenge. Duff lives with his wife and four children in Havelock North, New Zealand.

Tyrone Ngatai is an actor who embraces his cultural background strongly and is determined to continue to bring his heritage and diversity to the forefront of the entertainment and arts industry both on and off screen. Naturally he draws inspiration from New Zealand icons Taika Waititi, Sam Neill, Rena Owen, Karl Urban and Temuera Morrison to name a few. Like those before him, Tyrone aims to be a figure of inspiration to not only his generation of Maori and all New Zealanders, but the next generations to come. He is best known for his roles in Nautilus (2024) and The Abandoned (2024).