indigenous,new zealand,maori,portrait of a filmmaker

Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen (2019)

Poster for Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

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 & Crew

Director
Hepi Mita
  • Profile picture of Merata Mita
    Self (archive footage) Merata Mita
  • Profile picture of Alanis Obomsawin
    Self Alanis Obomsawin
  • Profile picture of Heather Rae
    Self Heather Rae
  • Profile picture of Bird Runningwater
    Self Bird Runningwater
  • Profile picture of Sterlin Harjo
    Self Sterlin Harjo
  • Profile picture of Blackhorse Lowe
    Self Blackhorse Lowe
  • Profile picture of Taika Waititi
    Self Taika Waititi
  • Profile picture of Desmond Tutu
    Self (archive footage) Desmond Tutu

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Keywords

  • indigenous
  • new zealand
  • maori
  • portrait of a filmmaker