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Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen (2019)

1h 28m | PG-13

⭐ 6.7 / 10

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.

Director: Hepi Mita

Studio: New Zealand Film Commission

Genre: Documentary

Video: 720p

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Cast

Merata Mita

Merata Mita

as Self (archive footage)

Hepi Mita

Hepi Mita

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Rafer Rautjoki

Rafer Rautjoki

as Self

Richard Rautjoki

Richard Rautjoki

as Self

Rhys Rautjoki

Rhys Rautjoki

as Self

Awatea Mita

Awatea Mita

as Self