The Dark Horse Soap2Day

One-time Maori speed-chess champ, Genesis Potini, lives with a bi-polar disorder and must overcome prejudice and violence in the battle to save his struggling chess club, his family and ultimately, himself.

Genre: Biography, Drama, History

Director: Ant Davies, James Napier, Kathleen Thomas, Luke Robinson, Rachael Boggs, Sophie Calver

Actors: Andrew Grainger, Cliff Curtis, James Rolleston, Kirk Torrance, Miriama McDowell, Rachel House, Roseanne Liang, Sia Trokenheim, Wayne Hapi, Xavier Horan

Country: New Zealand

Release Date: 2014-07-17

Duration: 02:04 2h 4min

Release: 2014

Awards: 26 wins & 15 nominations

IMDb: 7.4

TMDB: 6.112

Metacritic: 77/100