Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

6.7(7 votes)
2019
1h 28m
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.

Production

New Zealand Film Commission, Te Māngai Pāho

Cast

Merata Mita

Merata Mita

Self (archive footage)

Hepi Mita

Hepi Mita

Self - Narrator (voice)

Rafer Rautjoki

Rafer Rautjoki

Self

Richard Rautjoki

Richard Rautjoki

Self

Rhys Rautjoki

Rhys Rautjoki

Self

Awatea Mita

Awatea Mita

Self

Eruera Mita

Eruera Mita

Self

Alanis Obomsawin

Alanis Obomsawin

Self

Jesse Wente

Jesse Wente

Self

C.M. Kaliko Baker

C.M. Kaliko Baker

Self

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