2019Documentary1h 28m

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.

Information

StatusReleased
Original Languageen

Keywords

indigenousnew zealandmaoriportrait of a filmmaker

Production

New Zealand Film Commission
New Zealand Film Commission
Te Māngai Pāho
Te Māngai Pāho