Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

2019
1h 28m
6.7

6.7/10

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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.

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Status: Released

Language: EN

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Production Information

Production Companies
New Zealand Film Commission Te Māngai Pāho
Production Countries
New Zealand
Spoken Languages
English Maori

Keywords

indigenous new zealand maori portrait of a filmmaker

Quick Facts

Release Date January 28, 2019
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt8742574
Website Visit Site

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

Tammy Haili'opua Baker
Tammy Haili'opua Baker

Self

Heather Rae
Heather Rae

Self

Key Crew

Hepi Mita
Director
Chelsea Winstanley
Producer
Cliff Curtis
Executive Producer
Hepi Mita
Writer