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.
- Status
- Released
- Production
- New Zealand Film Commission, Te Māngai Pāho
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Top Cast
Merata Mita as Self (archive footage)
Hepi Mita as Self - Narrator (voice)
Rafer Rautjoki as Self
Richard Rautjoki as Self
Rhys Rautjoki as Self
Awatea Mita as Self
Eruera Mita as Self
Alanis Obomsawin as Self
Top Crew
Hepi Mita · Director, Writer
Mike Jonathan · Cinematographer
Te Rurehe Paki · Editor
Chelsea Winstanley · Producer
Cliff Curtis · Executive Producer
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