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May 12, 2019 · Merata: How Mom Decolonized the Screen: Directed by Hepi Mita. With Awatea Mita, Eruera 'Bob' Mita, Hepi Mita, Merata Mita. Documentary portrait of pioneering filmmaker and mother Merata Mita, detailing how her filmmaking intersected with the lives of her children and indigenous filmmakers globally, and featuring rare archival footage dating back to 1977.
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- Documentary, Biography
- Hepi Mita
- 2019-05-12
Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen. An examination of the life and work of indigenous filmmaker and activist Merata Mita. As Merata shows, Mita's entire life was a fight - one that Hepi ...
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- Awatea Mita
- Hepi Mita
- Documentary, Biography
Feb 10, 2019 · Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival. The legacy and personal life of the late New Zealand filmmaker Merata Mita are brought to life in the documentary Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen ...
Feb 10, 2019 · The truth that Mita reveals in his debut film, Merata: How Mum Decolonized the Screen, provides a corrective view to the idealized image of a land of Hobbits and social justice. The former, of ...
In NZ Cinemas Nationwide from Mother's Day, Sunday May 12, 2019An intimate story of the birth of indigenous cinema told from the perspective of Merata’s son ...
- 3 min
- 9.4K
- RialtoDistribution
An intimate story of the birth of indigenous cinema told from the perspective of Merata’s son Hepi Mita. The sudden death of pioneering Māori filmmaker Merata Mita in 2010 led her son on a journey to uncover a story of a mother’s love that changed the landscape of indigenous participation in film forever. As a film archivist Hepi uncovers never before seen footage and shares deep personal ...
A documentary portrait of the pioneering indigenous filmmaker and activist Merata Mita and an intimate tribute from a son about his mother that delves into the life of the first woman from an Indigenous Nation to solely direct a film anywhere in the world. Known as the grandmother of Indigenous cinema, Merata’s independent political documentaries of the 1970s and 80s highlighted injustices ...
