Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen Trailer

Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen Trailer (2019)

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.

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Crew

Hepi Mita

Director

Cliff Curtis

Cliff Curtis Executive Producer

Mike Jonathan

Mike Jonathan Director of Photography

Annie Collins

Annie Collins Consulting Editor

Dick Reade

Dick Reade Sound Editor

Manutai Schuster

Manutai Schuster Associate Producer

Desray Armstrong

Desray Armstrong Post Production Supervisor

Tearepa Kahi

Tearepa Kahi Creative Producer

Angela Boyd

Angela Boyd Online Editor

Awatea Mita

Awatea Mita Production Assistant

International Titles

Te Taki A Merata Mita – How Mum Decolonised The Screen Trailer

Merata Trailer

International Releases Dates

Germany 10 February 2019

New Zealand 02 August 2018

United States 12 May 2019

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