Your Logo Can Be Here Now!

Contact us for more details

Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

6.7
28 January 2019 · Documentary · 88 mins

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 Mita
    Merata Mita
    Self (archive footage)
  • Alanis Obomsawin
    Alanis Obomsawin
    Self
  • Heather Rae
    Heather Rae
    Self
  • Bird Runningwater
    Bird Runningwater
    Self
  • Sterlin Harjo
    Sterlin Harjo
    Self
  • Blackhorse Lowe
    Blackhorse Lowe
    Self
  • Taika Waititi
    Taika Waititi
    Self
  • Desmond Tutu
    Desmond Tutu
    Self (archive footage)

Also...

Spielberg
My Grandmother’s Tipi
Altman
Namatjira Project
The Invention of the Other
Waiuku Vistas
Resilience
Meet Me at the Creek
Max Gimblett: Original Mind
Plains: Testimony of an Ethnocide
A Pinto for the Prince
Mundurukuyü – The Forest of the Fish Women
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
Interviews with Abdelkrim Baba Aïssa
Atik, gardien du territoire
Closeness to the Land
Against the Tide
Still We Rise
Angels Gather Here
Taking Alcatraz