Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen (2019)

Director: Hepi Mita

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.

Cast

Merata Mita

Self (archive footage)

Hepi Mita

Self - Narrator (voice)

Rafer Rautjoki

Self

Richard Rautjoki

Self

Rhys Rautjoki

Self

Awatea Mita

Self

Eruera Mita

Self

Alanis Obomsawin

Self

Jesse Wente

Self

C.M. Kaliko Baker

Self