Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen (2019)
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.
Director: Hepi Mita
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Merata Mita as Self (archive footage) |
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Hepi Mita as Self - Narrator (voice) |
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Rafer Rautjoki as Self |
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Richard Rautjoki as Self |
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Rhys Rautjoki as Self |
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Awatea Mita as Self |
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Eruera Mita as Self |
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Alanis Obomsawin as Self |
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Jesse Wente as Self |
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C.M. Kaliko Baker as Self |
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Tammy Haili'opua Baker as Self |
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Heather Rae as Self |
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Bird Runningwater as Self |
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Andrew Okpeaha MacLean as Self |
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Sterlin Harjo as Self |
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Pauline Clague as Self |
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Blackhorse Lowe as Self |
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Taika Waititi as Self |
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Desmond Tutu as Self (archive footage) |
| Directing | Hepi Mita | Director |
| Production | Chelsea Winstanley | Producer |
| Production | Cliff Curtis | Executive Producer |
| Editing | Te Rurehe Paki | Editor |
| Camera | Mike Jonathan | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Hepi Mita | Writer |
| Editing | Annie Collins | Consulting Editor |
| Sound | Dick Reade | Sound Editor |
| Production | Manutai Schuster | Associate Producer |
| Sound | Tama Waipara | Music |
| Crew | Desray Armstrong | Post Production Supervisor |
| Writing | Tearepa Kahi | Creative Producer |
| Editing | Angela Boyd | Online Editor |
| Production | Awatea Mita | Production Assistant |