Watch Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen (2019) Official Trailer
6.7 / 10 IMDb January 28, 2019 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.
Director
Runtime
1h 28m
Release Date
January 28, 2019
Genre
Documentary
Status
Released
Languages
English, Maori
Country
New Zealand
Writers
Producers
Cast
Merata Mita
as Self (archive footage)
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Hepi Mita
as Self - Narrator (voice)
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Rafer Rautjoki
as Self
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Richard Rautjoki
as Self
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Rhys Rautjoki
as Self
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Awatea Mita
as Self
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Eruera Mita
as Self
Alanis Obomsawin
as Self
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Jesse Wente
as Self
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C.M. Kaliko Baker
as Self
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Tammy Haili'opua Baker
as Self
Heather Rae
as Self
Bird Runningwater
as Self
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Andrew Okpeaha MacLean
as Self
Sterlin Harjo
as Self
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Pauline Clague
as Self
Blackhorse Lowe
as Self
Taika Waititi
as Self
Desmond Tutu
as Self (archive footage)
Production Companies
New Zealand Film Commission
Te Māngai PāhoMerata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen Official Trailer 2019
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