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Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
6.7 / 10• 2019• 1h 28m•NR• English
Documentary
Storyline
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 & Crew
Merata Mita
Self (archive footage)
LeadHM
Hepi Mita
Self - Narrator (voice)
RR
Rafer Rautjoki
Self
RR
Richard Rautjoki
Self
RR
Rhys Rautjoki
Self
AM
Awatea Mita
Self
EM
Eruera Mita
Self
Alanis Obomsawin
Self
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Hepi Mita's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
