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

Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

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2019
1h 28m
6.7(7 votes)
Documentary

Overview

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.

Links & Resources

Social & External

Production Companies

New Zealand Film Commission

Videos & Trailers

2 videos

Cast & Crew

19 members
Directing

Merata Mita

Self (archive footage)

Merata Mita
Directing

Hepi Mita

Self - Narrator (voice)

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Acting

Rafer Rautjoki

Self

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Acting

Richard Rautjoki

Self

No Image
Acting

Rhys Rautjoki

Self

No Image
Acting

Awatea Mita

Self

No Image
Acting

Eruera Mita

Self

No Image
Directing

Alanis Obomsawin

Self

Alanis Obomsawin
Acting

Jesse Wente

Self

No Image
Acting

C.M. Kaliko Baker

Self

No Image
Acting

Tammy Haili'opua Baker

Self

No Image
Production

Heather Rae

Self

Heather Rae
Production

Bird Runningwater

Self

Bird Runningwater
Directing

Andrew Okpeaha MacLean

Self

No Image
Directing

Sterlin Harjo

Self

Sterlin Harjo
Production

Pauline Clague

Self

No Image
Writing

Blackhorse Lowe

Self

Blackhorse Lowe
Directing

Taika Waititi

Self

Taika Waititi
Acting

Desmond Tutu

Self (archive footage)

Desmond Tutu

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