

Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
1 hour 28 minutes2019-01-28
6.7
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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.
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
