

Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
Visit website6.7/10 • 7
2019-01-28 • 1h 28m
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.
- Directors
- Hepi Mita
- Writters
- Hepi Mita
- Editors
- Te Rurehe Paki

Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
Visit website2019-01-28 • 1h 28m
6.7/10 • 7
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.
- Directors
- Hepi Mita
- Writters
- Hepi Mita
- Editors
- Te Rurehe Paki
Top Billed Cast
View CreditsMerata Mita
Self (archive footage)
Hepi Mita
Self - Narrator (voice)
Rafer Rautjoki
Self
Richard Rautjoki
Self
Rhys Rautjoki
Self
Awatea Mita
Self
Eruera Mita
Self
Alanis Obomsawin
Self
Jesse Wente
Self
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- Status
- Released
- Original Language
- English
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- Keywords
- indigenousnew zealandmaoriportrait of a filmmaker