
Film
Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
2019 · 1h 28m · Documentary
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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.
Cast

Merata Mita
Self (archive footage)
Hepi Mita
Self - Narrator (voice)
Rafer Rautjoki
Self
Richard Rautjoki
Self
Rhys Rautjoki
Self
Awatea Mita
Self
Eruera Mita
Self

Alanis Obomsawin
Self
Jesse Wente
Self
C.M. Kaliko Baker
Self
Tammy Haili'opua Baker
Self

Heather Rae
Self

Bird Runningwater
Self
Andrew Okpeaha MacLean
Self

Sterlin Harjo
Self
Pauline Clague
Self
Crew
- Hepi MitaDirector · Writer
- Chelsea WinstanleyProducer
- Cliff CurtisExecutive Producer
- Mike JonathanDirector of Photography
- Te Rurehe PakiEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- January 28, 2019
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Genres
- Documentary
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