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Merata Mita

Born 1942-06-19 Maketu, New Zealand 7 films

Merata Mita, CNZM was a New Zealand actress and filmmaker, as well as a key figure in the growth of the Māori screen industry. Mita was from the Māori tribes of Ngāti Pikiao and Ngāi Te Rangi.

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Filmography

7 films

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Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen poster

This film is an intimate portrayal of pioneering filmmaker Merata Mita told through the eyes of her…

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Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

★ 6.7 2019

Hautoa Mā! The Rise of Māori Cinema poster

Documentary Hautoa Mā! The Rise of Māori Cinema reveals the remarkable impact Māori have made on Ne…

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Hautoa Mā! The Rise of Māori Cinema

★ 0.0 2016

As the name of this short film promises, a filmmaker (Merata Mita), a cook (Anne Thorp) and a singe…

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Pākiri: The Filmmaker, the Cook & the Singer

★ 0.0 1999

This Kaleidoscope documentary timed in with the release of Nicholas Reid’s book A Decade of New Zea…

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Kaleidoscope

★ 0.0 1987

Making of documentary on the set of New Zealand's first epic Utu (1983), working with little money…

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Making Utu

★ 0.0 1983

In New Zealand in the 1860s the native Māori people fought the British colonials to keep the land g…

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Utu

★ 7.0 1983

Covers the 12-week-long strike at Kinleith Pulp and Paper Mill, owned by New Zealand Forest Product…

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Kinleith '80

★ 0.0 1983