Merata Mita
Born: 1942-06-19
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.
Utu
as MatuReleased: 1984-06-27
In New Zealand in the 1860s the native Maori people fought the British colonials to keep the...
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Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
as Self (archive footage)Released: 2019-01-28
A documentary portrait of the pioneering indigenous filmmaker and activist Merata Mita and an...
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Kinleith '80
as Self - Narrator (voice)Released: 1983-01-01
Covers the 12-week-long strike at Kinleith Pulp and Paper Mill, owned by New Zealand Forest...
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Making Utu
as SelfReleased: 1983-02-05
Making of documentary on the set of New Zealand's first epic Utu (1983), working with little...
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