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Moana (Original title)
Date: 2016 (Copyright)

Country: USA

Director: John Musker, Ron Clements

Synopsis: A Polynesian teenager plots a course across the Pacific Ocean in search of a legendary island with the potential to save her people. Along the way she is joined by the god Maui and encounters a series of monstrous obstacles.

Genres:
Animation, Children's, Musical

Subjects:
Sea voyages, Pacific Islands, Gods and Godesses
Releases
Date: 23 November 2016Country: USARelease type: TheatricalFormat: Digital Cinema Package (DCP) - Colour - Sound - Dolby AtmosAspect ratio: 2.35:1Runtime: 103 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Date: 02 December 2016Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: Digital Cinema Package (DCP) - Colour - Sound - Dolby AtmosAspect ratio: 2.35:1Runtime: 103 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Buena Vista International (UK)

Credits (51)
Co-Directed by: Chris Williams, Don Hall, ©: Inc. Disney Enterprises, Executive Producer: John Lasseter, Produced by: Osnat Shurer, Associate Producer: Nicole P. Hearon, Production Manager: Yvett Merino, Post-production Supervisor: David Okey, Casting by: Jamie Sparer Roberts, Screenplay by: Jared Bush, Story by: Ron Clements, Story by: John Musker, Story by: Chris Williams, Story by: Don Hall, Story by: Pamela Ribon, Story by: Aaron Kandell, Jordan Kandell, Head of Story: David Pimentel, Head of Story: John Ripa, Director of Cinematography Layout: Rob Dressel, Director of Cinematography Lighting: Adolph Lusinsky, Visual Effects Supervisor: Kyle Odermatt, Head of Animation: Hyrum Virl Osmond, Amy P. Lawson Smeed, Animation Supervisor: Adam Green, Animation Supervisor: Jennifer Hager, Animation Supervisor: Mack Kablan, Animation Supervisor: Daniel James Klug, Malcon B. Pierce III, [Animation]: Walt Disney Animation Studios, Edited by: Jeff Draheim, Production Designer: Ian Gooding, Art Director Environments and Colour: Andy Harkness, Art Director Characters: Bill Schwab, End Title Design: Brian Estrada, Colourist: Eliot Milbourn, Original Songs: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Original Songs: Opetaia Foa’i, Mark Mancina, Original Music: Mark Mancina, Performances by: Te Vaka, Sound Designer: Tim Nielsen, Re-recording Mixer: David E. Fluhr, Re-recording Mixer: Gabriel Guy, Supervising Sound Editor: Tim Nielsen, Original Dialogue Mixer: Paul McGrath, Original Dialogue Mixer: Gabriel Guy, Doc Kane, Created and Produced at: Walt Disney Animation Studios
Cast (11)
Auli'i Cravalho (Moana), Dwayne Johnson (Maui), Rachel House (Gramma Tala), Temuera Morrison (Chief Tui), Jemaine Clement (Tamatoa), Nicole Scherzinger (Sina), Alan Tudyk (Heihei, villager #3), Oscar Kightley (fisherman), Troy Polamalu (villager #1), Puanani Cravalho (villager #2), Louise Bush (Moana as toddler)
Articles held in BFI Reuben Library (1)
In: Science fiction film and television v11 n1 Spring 2018  Pages: 139-143
Title: MoanaAuthor: Canavan, GerryArticle type: DVD ReviewLanguage: English
Description: DVD review.


Books held in BFI Reuben Library (6)
Title: Contemporary Disney animation: genre, gender and Hollywood
Author: Benhamou, Eve  Pages: x, 249 pages

Title: Neo-Disneyism: inclusivity in the twenty-first century of Disney's magic kingdom
Author: AYRES, Brenda  Pages: xviii, 350 pages

Title: Disney princess: a celebration of art & creativity
Author: SOLOMON, Charles  Pages: 239 pages

Title: Facing the Pacific: Polynesia and the U.S. imperial imagination
Author: GEIGER, Jeffrey  Pages: viii, 303 p.

Title: I mocassini indiani
Author: PAULON, Flavia  Pages: 197p.
Description: LOUISIANA STORY pp. 135-146 The MAN OF ARAN pp. 101-116 MOANA pp. 69-85 NANOOK OF THE NORTH pp. 55-67

Title: world of Robert Flaherty
Author: GRIFFITH, Richard  Pages: xxii, 165p.
Description: With over seventy photographs. English edition published: London, Gollancz, 1953. ELEPHANT BOY pp. 109-135 MAN OF ARAN pp. 83-106 MOANA pp. 47-71 NANOOK OF THE NORTH pp. 3-43