Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

(2019)

Documentary

1hrs 28m

Overview

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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MERATA | Theatrical Trailer

Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen | Official Trailer

All Casts

Merata 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

C.M. Kaliko Baker

** Self

Tammy Haili'opua Baker

** Self

Heather Rae

** Self

Bird Runningwater

** Self

Andrew Okpeaha MacLean

** Self

Sterlin Harjo

** Self

Pauline Clague

** Self

Blackhorse Lowe

** Self

Taika Waititi

** Self

Desmond Tutu

** Self (archive footage)

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