Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen (2019)

  • NR
  • 01/28/2019 (US)
  • Documentary
  • 1h 28m

Overview

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, Writer

Cast

Merata Mita's headshot

Merata Mita

Self (archive footage)
Hepi Mita's headshot

Hepi Mita

Self - Narrator (voice)
Rafer Rautjoki's headshot

Rafer Rautjoki

Self
Richard Rautjoki's headshot

Richard Rautjoki

Self
Rhys Rautjoki's headshot

Rhys Rautjoki

Self
Awatea Mita's headshot

Awatea Mita

Self
Eruera Mita's headshot

Eruera Mita

Self
Alanis Obomsawin's headshot

Alanis Obomsawin

Self

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