Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen poster

Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

6.7(7)20191h 28m1

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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Status
Released
Budget
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Box office
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Language
English
  • indigenous
  • new zealand
  • maori
  • portrait of a filmmaker

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Director

Hepi Mita

Writers

Hepi Mita

Produced in

New Zealand

Gallery

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Videos

Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalSundance Film Festival28 Jan 2019
    • Digital / OTTNetflix - US, Canada & UK12 May 2019
  • GermanyDE

    • TheatricalBerlinale (NATIVe)10 Feb 2019
  • New ZealandNZ

    • PremiereNew Zealand International Film Festival2 Aug 2018

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Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen was released on 28 January 2019.

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