Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

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 MitaSelf (archive footage)

Hepi MitaSelf - Narrator (voice)

Rafer RautjokiSelf

Richard RautjokiSelf

Rhys RautjokiSelf

Awatea MitaSelf

Eruera MitaSelf

Alanis ObomsawinSelf

Jesse WenteSelf

C.M. Kaliko BakerSelf

Tammy Haili'opua BakerSelf

Heather RaeSelf

Bird RunningwaterSelf

Andrew Okpeaha MacLeanSelf

Sterlin HarjoSelf