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Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen (2019)

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Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
NR 1 hr 28 minJan 28th, 2019Documentary
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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.
StarringMerata MitaHepi MitaRafer Rautjoki
DirectorHepi Mita
WriterHepi Mita

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:January 28th, 2019
On Digital & Streaming:May 12th, 2019
Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Cliff Curtis
Production Companies:New Zealand Film Commission, Te Māngai Pāho
Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen on the Web:Official Website
Movie Tags:
indigenousnew zealandportrait of a filmmakermaori