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.
Top Billed Cast
Merata Mita
Self (archive footage)
Hepi Mita
Self - Narrator (voice)
Rafer Rautjoki
Self
Richard Rautjoki
Self
Rhys Rautjoki
Self
Featured Crew
Hepi Mita
Director
Mike Jonathan
Director of Photography
Chelsea Winstanley
Producer
Cliff Curtis
Executive Producer
Te Rurehe Paki
Editor
Angela Boyd
Online Editor
Dick Reade
Sound Editor
Hepi Mita
Writer
Tearepa Kahi
Creative Producer
Desray Armstrong
Post Production Supervisor
Tama Waipara
Music
Annie Collins
Consulting Editor
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