Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

Name: Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
Director: Hepi Mita
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2019-01-28
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Merata Mita, Hepi Mita, Rafer Rautjoki, Richard Rautjoki, Rhys Rautjoki

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Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

*6.7

Status

Released

Production

New Zealand Film Commission

Aired

2019-01-28

Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

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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