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Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

Release: 2019-01-28 ·Runtime: 88m ·★ 6.7
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.

Production Countries

New Zealand

Production Companies

New Zealand Film Commission
Te Māngai Pāho

Cast

Merata Mita Merata Mita as Self (archive footage) Alanis Obomsawin Alanis Obomsawin as Self Heather Rae Heather Rae as Self Bird Runningwater Bird Runningwater as Self Sterlin Harjo Sterlin Harjo as Self Blackhorse Lowe Blackhorse Lowe as Self Taika Waititi Taika Waititi as Self Desmond Tutu Desmond Tutu as Self (archive footage)

Crew

Cliff Curtis Cliff Curtis Executive Producer Desray Armstrong Desray Armstrong Post Production Supervisor