Feature film — 2019
Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen (2019)
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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A high-signal pick with 7 votes.
New Zealand Film Commission / Te Māngai Pāho
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Director: Hepi Mita
On screen
Cast & crew
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
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