Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
About 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.
Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen (2019) is a documentary film directed by Hepi Mita. At 88 minutes long, it arrived in January 2019.
Merata Mita stars as Self (archive footage), Hepi Mita as Self - Narrator (voice), Rafer Rautjoki as Self, and Richard Rautjoki as Self. Written by Hepi Mita. Production companies include New Zealand Film Commission and Te Māngai Pāho.
Shelv files it under new zealand, indigenous, portrait of a filmmaker, and maori.
Once Were Warriors, The Piano, and Boy make useful companions to Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen.