Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
2019•1h 28m•6.7•Released
Documentary
This film is an intimate portrayal of pioneering filmmaker Merata Mita told through the eyes of her children. Using hours of archive footage, some never before seen, her youngest child and director Hepi Mita discovers the filmmaker he never knew and shares the mother he lost, with the world.
Director
Hepi Mita
Writer
Hepi Mita
Languages
English, Maori
Studio
New Zealand Film Commission
Cast
Merata Mita
Self (archive footage)
Hepi Mita
Self - Narrator (voice)
Rafer Rautjoki
Self
Richard Rautjoki
Self
Rhys Rautjoki
Self
Awatea Mita
Self
Eruera Mita
Self
Alanis Obomsawin
Self
Jesse Wente
Self
C.M. Kaliko Baker
Self
Tammy Haili'opua Baker
Self
Heather Rae
Self
Bird Runningwater
Self
Andrew Okpeaha MacLean
Self
Sterlin Harjo
Self
Production
Company
New Zealand Film Commission
Company
Te Māngai Pāho
Producer
Chelsea Winstanley
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