Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
28/01/2019
1h 28m

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


Desmond Tutu
Self (archive footage)
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