Documentary
Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
User Score7 votes
67%6.7/10
Release2019→
Runtime1H 28M
LanguageEnglish
StatusReleased
Synopsis
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.
Principal Cast8
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
Media7
Backdrops
Posters
Director
Hepi Mita
Director →
Trailer
Keywords
indigenousnew zealandmaoriportrait of a filmmaker
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Countries:New Zealand
Production:New Zealand Film CommissionTe Māngai Pāho