Merata Mita

Directing

June 19, 1942

Died May 31, 2010 (67 years old)

Maketu, New Zealand

Acting Credits

Directed

IMDb

Biography

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.

Known For

Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

Self (archive footage)

Hautoa Mā! The Rise of Māori Cinema

Self (Footage)

Utu

Matu

Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata

Hotere

Mauri

Making Utu

Self

Keskidee Aroha

Filmography

Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

2019

as Self (archive footage)

6.7

Hautoa Mā! The Rise of Māori Cinema

2016

as Self (Footage)

Pākiri: The Filmmaker, the Cook & the Singer

1999

as Self

Kaleidoscope

1987

as Subject

Making Utu

1983

as Self

Kinleith '80

1983

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Utu

1983

as Matu