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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

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

Studios & networks

New Zealand Film Commission · Te Māngai Pāho