Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
6.7
7 votes
January 28, 2019
1h 28m
Overview
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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In United States
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Cast
Merata Mita
Self (archive footage)Hepi Mita
Self - Narrator (voice)Rafer Rautjoki
SelfRichard Rautjoki
SelfRhys Rautjoki
SelfAwatea Mita
SelfEruera Mita
Self
Alanis Obomsawin
SelfJesse Wente
SelfC.M. Kaliko Baker
SelfTammy Haili'opua Baker
Self
Heather Rae
Self
Bird Runningwater
SelfAndrew Okpeaha MacLean
Self
Sterlin Harjo
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