28 January 2019 Factual 88 mins
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.
Watch the official Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen 2019 trailer in HD below.
Merata Mita as Self (archive footage)
Hepi Mita as Self - Narrator (voice)
Rafer Rautjoki as Self
Richard Rautjoki as Self
Rhys Rautjoki as Self
Awatea Mita as Self
Eruera Mita as Self
Alanis Obomsawin as Self
Jesse Wente as Self
C.M. Kaliko Baker as Self
Tammy Haili'opua Baker as Self
Heather Rae as Self
Bird Runningwater as Self
Andrew Okpeaha MacLean as Self
Sterlin Harjo as Self
Pauline Clague as Self
Hepi Mita Director
Chelsea Winstanley Producer
Cliff Curtis Executive Producer
Te Rurehe Paki Editor
Mike Jonathan Director of Photography
Hepi Mita Writer
Annie Collins Consulting Editor
Dick Reade Sound Editor
Manutai Schuster Associate Producer
Tama Waipara Music
Desray Armstrong Post Production Supervisor
Tearepa Kahi Creative Producer
Angela Boyd Online Editor
Awatea Mita Production Assistant
Te Taki A Merata Mita – How Mum Decolonised The Screen Trailer
Merata Trailer
Germany 10 February 2019
New Zealand 02 August 2018
United States 12 May 2019
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