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Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

Documentary

6.7

Release Date

January 28, 2019

Duration

88 min

Status

Released

Language

en

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.

Casts

Merata Mita

Self (archive footage)

Merata Mita

Hepi Mita

Self - Narrator (voice)

Hepi Mita

Rafer Rautjoki

Self

Rafer Rautjoki

Richard Rautjoki

Self

Richard Rautjoki

Rhys Rautjoki

Self

Rhys Rautjoki

Awatea Mita

Self

Awatea Mita

Eruera Mita

Self

Eruera Mita

Alanis Obomsawin

Self

Alanis Obomsawin

Jesse Wente

Self

Jesse Wente

C.M. Kaliko Baker

Self

C.M. Kaliko Baker

Tammy Haili'opua Baker

Self

Tammy Haili'opua Baker

Heather Rae

Self

Heather Rae

Bird Runningwater

Self

Bird Runningwater

Andrew Okpeaha MacLean

Self

Andrew Okpeaha MacLean

Sterlin Harjo

Self

Sterlin Harjo

Pauline Clague

Self

Pauline Clague

Blackhorse Lowe

Self

Blackhorse Lowe

Taika Waititi

Self

Taika Waititi

Desmond Tutu

Self (archive footage)

Desmond Tutu

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