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Merata Mita

Chelsea Winstanley and Ainsley Gardiner. (Image: Archi Banal)

Chelsea Winstanley and Ainsley Gardiner on Night Raiders and indigenous storytelling

Decolonising the silver screen, one brilliant film at a time.
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By Charlotte Muru-Lanning | 23rd March, 2022
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The original film poster for Patu! (1983)

The incredible legacy of Merata Mita’s Patu!

Dan Taipua looks at the legacy of Patu!, the landmark documentary about the Springbok tour protests of 1981.
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By Dan Taipua | 30th July, 2021
Guest writer
What Taika’s Oscar means to me – and all indigenous filmmakers
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What Taika’s Oscar means to me – and all indigenous filmmakers

Director Heperi Mita celebrates the success of his friend Taika Waititi, and explains what it means for Māori and indigenous creatives around the world. 
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By Heperi Mita | 13th February, 2020
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Image: Arrival of Captain Cook by Louis Steele/collage

Making sense of Tuia 250 through Barry Barclay’s prescient work

Miriama Aoake delved back into Barry Barclay's book Mana Tūturu: Māori Treasures and Intellectual Property Rights, in which the filmmaker reimagines Captain Cook's landing in Aotearoa if cameras were present. 
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By Miriama Aoake | 6th October, 2019
Contributing writer
Merata Mita editing Patu! in 1983. (Photo: Gil Hanly)

A son celebrates his mother in Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

Professor Leonie Pihama on the unique values and perspective filmmaker Merata Mita brought to the screen, and how it changed how we see ourselves.
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By Leonie Pihama | 12th May, 2019
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(Photo: John Miller)

Merata Mita: the godmother of indigenous film

Nine years after Māori filmmaker Merata Mita's death, her son Hepi Mita has made a documentary about the immense legacy she left behind.
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By Alice Webb-Liddall | 2nd May, 2019
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