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Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

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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 & crew

Hepi Mita · Awatea Mita · Alanis Obomsawin · C.M. Kaliko Baker · Richard Rautjoki · Rafer Rautjoki · Rhys Rautjoki · Merata Mita · Eruera Mita · Jesse Wente

Studios & networks

New Zealand Film Commission · Te Māngai Pāho