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Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen 2019

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.

Production Country New Zealand
Language English
Spoken Languages English , Maori
Release Date 28 January 2019
88 mins