Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen (2019)

6.7/10 88 min Documentary

Overview

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.

Cast

Merata Mita

Self (archive footage)

Alanis Obomsawin

Self

Heather Rae

Self

Bird Runningwater

Self

Sterlin Harjo

Self

Blackhorse Lowe

Self

Taika Waititi

Self

Desmond Tutu

Self (archive footage)

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