logo

Home

Movies

TV shows

Sign In

HOMEMOVIESTV-SHOWSABOUTWATCHLIST
homemoviestv-showsaboutwatchlist

Powered by

TMDB website logo

© 2025 Filmverse

Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

01/28/2019

|

1hr 28min

|

Documentary

STORY

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 & CREW

    Cast

  • Merata Mita
  • Hepi Mita
  • Rafer Rautjoki
  • Richard Rautjoki
  • Rhys Rautjoki

    Directors

  • Hepi Mita
  • Tearepa Kahi

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • New Zealand Film Commission
  • Te Māngai Pāho

    Production Countries

  • New Zealand

LANGUAGES

  • English
  • Maori

Cast

Rafer Rautjoki

Self

Richard Rautjoki

Self

Rhys Rautjoki

Self

Awatea Mita

Self

Eruera Mita

Self

Jesse Wente

Self

C.M. Kaliko Baker

Self

Tammy Haili'opua Baker

Self

Desmond Tutu

Self (archive footage)

Videos

movies like Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

The Head Hunter

The Head Hunter

Interstellar

Interstellar

Godzilla Minus One

Godzilla Minus One

BlacKkKlansman

BlacKkKlansman

Green Book

Green Book

Civil War

Civil War

Vertigo

Vertigo

Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express

1917

1917

Heretic

Heretic

Late Night with the Devil

Late Night with the Devil

Woman of the Hour

Woman of the Hour

Venom

Venom

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

Annihilation

Annihilation

Moana 2

Moana 2

Soul

Soul

Marriage Story

Marriage Story

Saltburn

Saltburn

Pulp Fiction

Pulp Fiction