Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

Directed by Hepi Mita

Written by Hepi Mita, Tearepa Kahi

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

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

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

Self