Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen (2019)
• January 28th, 2019 • 1h 28min
Documentary
Overview
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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