Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
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
19 people
Merata Mita
Self (archive footage)
Also in
Utu
Fortress 2
Hepi Mita
Self - Narrator (voice)
Rafer Rautjoki
Self
Richard Rautjoki
Self
Rhys Rautjoki
Self
Awatea Mita
Self
Also in
Utu
Eruera Mita
Self
Alanis Obomsawin
Self
Also in
Amisk
Bones of Crows
Jesse Wente
Self
C.M. Kaliko Baker
Self
Tammy Haili'opua Baker
Self
Heather Rae
Self
Known for
Albion: The Enchanted Stallion
Hepi Mita Director · Mike Jonathan Cinematographer Te Rurehe Paki Editor
United States release January 28, 2019 · Produced in New Zealand · Languages English, Māori
Production
New Zealand Film Commission
Production
Te Māngai Pāho
Production
New Zealand
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · Māori
Release dates
New Zealand · August 2, 2018
Premiere · New Zealand International Film Festival
United States · January 28, 2019
Theatrical · Sundance Film Festival
United States · May 12, 2019
Digital · Netflix - US, Canada & UK
Germany
February 10, 2019 · Theatrical · Berlinale (NATIVe)
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