Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

An intimate story of the birth of indigenous cinema told from the perspective of Merata’s son Hepi Mita. The sudden death of pioneering Māori filmmaker Merata Mita in 2010 led her son on a journey to uncover a story of a...
New Zealand Production
Feature 2018 Documentary 95.00 minutes
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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.
2018: New Zealand International Film Festival
Rotorua Indigenous Film Festival
2019: Sundance Film Festival
imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival
Berlin International Film Festival
DOXA Documentary Film Festival Vancouver
Hot Docs Film Festival
LA Asian Pacific Film Festival
Melbourne International Film Festival
Hawaii International Film Festival Spring Showcase
Sydney Film Festival
2021: IN–>NZ Indigenous Connections Film Week

Directors

Heperi Mita

Producers

Chelsea Winstanley

Executive Producers

Cliff Curtis

Crew

Mike Jonathan | DOP
Te Rurehe Paki | Editor
Annie Collins | Editor

Production Company

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