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.
Title | Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen |
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Year | 2019 |
Genre | Documentary |
Country | New Zealand |
Studio | New Zealand Film Commission, Te Māngai Pāho |
Cast | Merata Mita, Hepi Mita, Rafer Rautjoki, Richard Rautjoki, Rhys Rautjoki, Awatea Mita |
Crew | Hepi Mita (Director), Cliff Curtis (Executive Producer), Chelsea Winstanley (Producer), Mike Jonathan (Director of Photography), Te Rurehe Paki (Editor), Hepi Mita (Writer) |
Keyword | indigenous, new zealand, maori, portrait of a filmmaker |
Release | Jan 28, 2019 |
Runtime | 88 minutes |
Quality | HD |
IMDb | 6.70 / 10 by 7 users |
Popularity | 2 |
Budget | 0 |
Revenue | 0 |
Language | English, |