Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen(2019)
6.7(7)1h 28m2019-01-28
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.
- Director:
- Hepi Mita
- Writers:
- Hepi Mita, Tearepa Kahi
- Producers:
- Chelsea Winstanley
- Cinematographer:
- Mike Jonathan
- Production:
- New Zealand Film Commission, Te Māngai Pāho
- Status:
- Released
Trailer
Cast
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
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
Self
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