Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen (2019)
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
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