Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen (2019)
2019 · 1h 28m · Documentary
Genres: 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.
Director: Hepi Mita
Writers: Hepi Mita
Music by: Tama Waipara
Cinematography: Mike Jonathan
Editor: Te Rurehe Paki
Cast
Merata Mita as Self (archive footage)Hepi Mita as Self - Narrator (voice)Rafer Rautjoki as SelfRichard Rautjoki as SelfRhys Rautjoki as SelfAwatea Mita as SelfEruera Mita as SelfAlanis Obomsawin as SelfJesse Wente as SelfC.M. Kaliko Baker as SelfTammy Haili'opua Baker as SelfHeather Rae as SelfMore like this
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