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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Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen debuted at the New Zealand International Film Festival back in 2018. In 2019 the film headed off shore, featuring at the Sundance Film Festival, Berlinale Film Festival, and the Sydney and Melbourne International festivals to name a few.