Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

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TitleMerata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
User score

6.7

Release dateJan 28, 2019
GenreDocumentary
DirectorHepi Mita
Production countryNew Zealand
Production companiesNew Zealand Film Commission, Te Māngai Pāho
Run time88 min.

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.

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Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen | Official Trailer

Apr 17, 2019

MERATA | Theatrical Trailer

May 3, 2019

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