Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
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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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Cast

  • Merata Mita
    Merata Mita
    Self (archive footage)
  • Hepi Mita
    Self - Narrator (voice)
  • Rafer Rautjoki
    Self
  • Richard Rautjoki
    Self
  • Rhys Rautjoki
    Self
  • Awatea Mita
    Self
  • Eruera Mita
    Self
  • Alanis Obomsawin
    Alanis Obomsawin
    Self
  • Jesse Wente
    Self
  • C.M. Kaliko Baker
    Self
  • Tammy Haili'opua Baker
    Self
  • Heather Rae
    Heather Rae
    Self
  • Bird Runningwater
    Bird Runningwater
    Self
  • Andrew Okpeaha MacLean
    Self
  • Sterlin Harjo
    Sterlin Harjo
    Self
  • Pauline Clague
    Self
  • Blackhorse Lowe
    Blackhorse Lowe
    Self
  • Taika Waititi
    Taika Waititi
    Self
  • Desmond Tutu
    Desmond Tutu
    Self (archive footage)

Crew

  • Hepi Mita
    Director
  • Chelsea Winstanley
    Producer
  • Cliff Curtis
    Cliff Curtis
    Executive Producer
  • Te Rurehe Paki
    Editor
  • Mike Jonathan
    Director of Photography
  • Hepi Mita
    Writer
  • Annie Collins
    Consulting Editor
  • Dick Reade
    Sound Editor
  • Manutai Schuster
    Associate Producer
  • Tama Waipara
    Music
  • Desray Armstrong
    Desray Armstrong
    Post Production Supervisor
  • Tearepa Kahi
    Creative Producer
  • Angela Boyd
    Online Editor
  • Awatea Mita
    Production Assistant

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