Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

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.

Details

Cast

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

Self

Jesse Wente

Self

C.M. Kaliko Baker

Self

Tammy Haili'opua Baker

Self

Heather Rae

Self

Bird Runningwater

Self

Andrew Okpeaha MacLean

Self

Sterlin Harjo

Self

Pauline Clague

Self

Blackhorse Lowe

Self

Taika Waititi

Self

Desmond Tutu

Self (archive footage)