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 novel One Night Out Stealing and a novella State Ward 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.
Liam Titheridge is an actor based in Melbourne, Australia. Liam studied Film and Television at Footscray City Films, where he took on an interest in acting. His first notable film appearance was in Red Sky: Candidate 5238, followed by roles in shows like Neighbours, Jack Irish and Project S.E.E.D: Prelude and short films such as Awake and Addicted.