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Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

Film

Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

6.7

1h 28m

2019

Synopsis

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

Trailer

Documentary

indigenousnew zealandmaoriportrait of a filmmaker

Cast & Crew

Merata Mita

Merata Mita

as Self (archive footage)

Hepi Mita

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Rafer Rautjoki

as Self

Richard Rautjoki

as Self

Rhys Rautjoki

as Self

Awatea Mita

as Self

Eruera Mita

as Self

Alanis Obomsawin

Alanis Obomsawin

as Self

Jesse Wente

as Self

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