New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says Christchurch mosque attack film shouldn’t focus on her
The Hollywood Reporter wrote last week that Kiwi writer-director Andrew Niccol (The Truman Show) would helm the project called They Are Us, which is described as an “inspirational story” about Ardern’s moving response to the violence.Although the film would broach the attacks by Brenton Tarrant, a white supremacist gunman who killed 51 people on March 15, 2019 at two mosques in Christchurch, its main thrust is said to be more about Ardern’s compassionate response that was praised globally.The Prime Minister’s office said last week that she and the government had no involvement with the film.“This is very raw event for New Zealand and even more so for the community that experienced it,” Ardern said at a news conference when asked about the