Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen (2019)

Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen (2019)

All the adventure a man can live, he lives. 2019-01-28 New Zealand 88 Min. PG-13

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Documentary

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.

Cast

Merata Mita is Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Hepi Mita is Self - Narrator (voice)

Self - Narrator (voice)

Rafer Rautjoki is Self

Self

Richard Rautjoki is Self

Richard Rautjoki

Self

Rhys Rautjoki is Self

Self

Awatea Mita is Self

Self

Eruera Mita is Self

Self

Alanis Obomsawin is Self

Alanis Obomsawin

Self

Jesse Wente is Self

Self

C.M. Kaliko Baker is Self

C.M. Kaliko Baker

Self

Tammy Haili'opua Baker is Self

Tammy Haili'opua Baker

Self

Heather Rae is Self

Self

Bird Runningwater is Self

Bird Runningwater

Self

Andrew Okpeaha MacLean is Self

Andrew Okpeaha MacLean

Self

Sterlin Harjo is Self

Self

Pauline Clague is Self

Self

Blackhorse Lowe is Self

Blackhorse Lowe

Self

Taika Waititi is Self

Self

Desmond Tutu is Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

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