Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

6.7

88 minutes

1/28/2019

Overview

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 List

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