CinemaOSMovie · 2019 · 1h 28m

Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

67%(7)IMDbDocumentary

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.

Directed byHepi Mita

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 28m
Language
EN
Released
January 28, 2019
Studios
New Zealand Film CommissionTe Māngai Pāho

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2 videos
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Official Trailer

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Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring
Merata Mita

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

Alanis Obomsawin

Self

Jesse Wente

Self

C.M. Kaliko Baker

Self

Creative team
Directed by
Hepi Mita
Written by
Hepi Mita
Produced by
Chelsea Winstanley

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