The read
Critics rate it 15 points higher than audiences do. It runs a compact 1h 28m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes92%
Critics rate it 15 points higher than audiences do.
7 audience votes
Key crew
Cast
- Merata MitaSelf (archive footage)
- Hepi MitaSelf - Narrator (voice)
- Rafer RautjokiSelf
- Richard RautjokiSelf
- Rhys RautjokiSelf
- Awatea MitaSelf
- Eruera MitaSelf
- Alanis ObomsawinSelf
- Jesse WenteSelf
- C.M. Kaliko BakerSelf
- Tammy Haili'opua BakerSelf
- Heather RaeSelf
Stills
Themes
indigenousnew zealandmaoriportrait of a filmmaker