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Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

★ 6.7/10•2019•1h 28m•Documentary

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.

Hepi Mita · Director

Hepi Mita · Writer

StatusReleased
Runtime1h 28m
LanguageEN
Release DateJan 28, 2019

Actors

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

Tammy Haili'opua Baker

Self

Heather Rae

Heather Rae

Self

Bird Runningwater

Bird Runningwater

Self

Andrew Okpeaha MacLean

Self

Sterlin Harjo

Sterlin Harjo

Self

Pauline Clague

Self

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