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Film · 2019
Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
1h 28mDirected by Hepi Mita
- Documentary
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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Cast
Merata MitaSelf (archive footage)- Hepi MitaSelf - Narrator (voice)
- Rafer RautjokiSelf
- Richard RautjokiSelf
- Rhys RautjokiSelf
- Awatea MitaSelf
- Eruera MitaSelf
Alanis ObomsawinSelf- Jesse WenteSelf
- C.M. Kaliko BakerSelf
- Tammy Haili'opua BakerSelf
Heather RaeSelf
Details
- Director
- Hepi Mita
- Writer
- Hepi Mita
- Cinematography
- Mike Jonathan
- Editor
- Te Rurehe Paki
- Producer
- Chelsea Winstanley
- Release
- January 28, 2019
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Language
- English, Maori
- Studio
- New Zealand Film Commission, Te Māngai Pāho
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