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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)

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