Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
20191h 28m6.7
Documentary
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Genre
- Documentary
- Origin
- New Zealand
About
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.
Where to watch
Not available to stream in United States yet.
Details
- Director
- Hepi Mita
- Writing
- Hepi Mita
- Status
- Released
- Released
- Jan 28, 2019
- Studio
- New Zealand Film Commission, Te Māngai Pāho
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
Blackhorse Lowe
Self
Taika Waititi
Self
Desmond Tutu
Self (archive footage)
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