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Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen (2019)

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.

Release: 2019-01-28
Runtime: 88 min
Rating: 6.7 / 10

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Cast
Merata Mita
Merata Mita
Self (archive footage)
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Hepi Mita
Self - Narrator (voice)
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Rafer Rautjoki
Self
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Richard Rautjoki
Self
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Rhys Rautjoki
Self
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Awatea Mita
Self
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Eruera Mita
Self
Alanis Obomsawin
Alanis Obomsawin
Self
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Jesse Wente
Self
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C.M. Kaliko Baker
Self
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Tammy Haili'opua Baker
Self
Heather Rae
Heather Rae
Self
Bird Runningwater
Bird Runningwater
Self
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Andrew Okpeaha MacLean
Self
Sterlin Harjo
Sterlin Harjo
Self
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Pauline Clague
Self
Blackhorse Lowe
Blackhorse Lowe
Self
Taika Waititi
Taika Waititi
Self