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Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen (2019)

Released 2019-01-28T00:00:00.000Z · 88 min · ★ 6.7 · Documentary

Languages: English (original), English (spoken), Māori (spoken)

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

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)

Crew

Angela BoydEditingOnline Editor
Annie CollinsEditingConsulting Editor
Awatea MitaProductionProduction Assistant
Chelsea WinstanleyProductionProducer
Cliff CurtisProductionExecutive Producer
Desray ArmstrongCrewPost Production Supervisor
Dick ReadeSoundSound Editor
Hepi MitaDirectingDirector
Hepi MitaWritingWriter
Manutai SchusterProductionAssociate Producer
Mike JonathanCameraDirector of Photography
Tama WaiparaSoundMusic
Te Rurehe PakiEditingEditor
Tearepa KahiWritingCreative Producer

Titles

Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen · Merata · Te Taki A Merata Mita – How Mum Decolonised The Screen

Ratings: imdb 7.60/10.00 (161 votes) · tmdb 6.70/10.00 (7 votes)