Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Born

1942-06-19

Place of Birth

Maketu, New Zealand

IMDb

Merata Mita

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.

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Known For

Making Utu

Kinleith '80

Pākiri: The Filmmaker, the Cook & the Singer

Utu

Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

Kaleidoscope

Acting History

2019

Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen as Self (archive footage)

1999

Pākiri: The Filmmaker, the Cook & the Singer as Self

1987

Kaleidoscope as Subject

Kinleith '80 as Self - Narrator (voice)