Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen (2019)

Name: Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
Director: Hepi Mita
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2019-01-28
Duration: 88 min
Cast: Merata Mita, Hepi Mita, Rafer Rautjoki, Richard Rautjoki, Rhys Rautjoki

20191h 28mDocumentary

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.

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Cast

Merata MitaSelf (archive footage)
HHepi MitaSelf - Narrator (voice)
RRafer RautjokiSelf
RRichard RautjokiSelf
RRhys RautjokiSelf
AAwatea MitaSelf
EEruera MitaSelf
Alanis ObomsawinSelf
JJesse WenteSelf
CC.M. Kaliko BakerSelf
TTammy Haili'opua BakerSelf
Heather RaeSelf
Bird RunningwaterSelf
AAndrew Okpeaha MacLeanSelf
Sterlin HarjoSelf
PPauline ClagueSelf
Blackhorse LoweSelf
Taika WaititiSelf

Crew

Director: Hepi Mita
Writers: Hepi Mita
Producers: Cliff Curtis Chelsea Winstanley
Cinematography: Mike Jonathan
Editing: Te Rurehe Paki

Details

Released: January 28, 2019
Language: English
Studio: New Zealand Film Commission, Te Māngai Pāho
IMDb: tt8742574