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Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
Film / 2019

Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

Directed by Hepi Mita
Documentary

★ 6.7/10Audience rating

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.

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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

Merata MitaSelf (archive footage) Hepi MitaSelf - Narrator (voice) Rafer RautjokiSelf Richard RautjokiSelf Rhys RautjokiSelf Awatea MitaSelf Eruera MitaSelf Alanis ObomsawinSelf Jesse WenteSelf C.M. Kaliko BakerSelf Tammy Haili'opua BakerSelf Heather RaeSelf
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Bird RunningwaterSelf Andrew Okpeaha MacLeanSelf Sterlin HarjoSelf Pauline ClagueSelf Blackhorse LoweSelf Taika WaititiSelf Desmond TutuSelf (archive footage)

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