Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen (2019)

01/28/2019 (NZ) • Documentary • 1h 28m

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.

Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen (2019)

01/28/2019 (NZ) • 1h 28m

Documentary

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.

Top Billed Cast

Self (archive footage)

Self - Narrator (voice)

Self

Richard Rautjoki

Self

Self

Self

Self

Alanis Obomsawin

Self

Self

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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

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Keywords

indigenous

new zealand

maori

portrait of a filmmaker

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