Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

201988 min6.7English, Maori

Directed by

Hepi Mita

Synopsis

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.

Festivals

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New Zealand International Film Festival 2018

Cast and Crew

Cast: Merata Mita, Hepi Mita, Rafer Rautjoki, Richard Rautjoki, Rhys Rautjoki, Awatea Mita, Eruera Mita, Alanis Obomsawin, Jesse Wente, C.M. Kaliko Baker, Tammy Haili'opua Baker, Heather Rae, Bird Runningwater, Andrew Okpeaha MacLean, Sterlin Harjo, Pauline Clague, Blackhorse Lowe, Taika Waititi, Desmond Tutu

Writer: Hepi Mita (Writer)

Cinematographer: Mike Jonathan

Editor: Te Rurehe Paki

Sound Designer: Dick Reade

Composer: Tama Waipara

Producers: Chelsea Winstanley, Cliff Curtis, Manutai Schuster

Production: New Zealand Film Commission, Te Māngai Pāho

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