In the first trailer for ARRAY’s Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen we see exactly what the title suggests. The titular pioneering indigenous filmmaker and activist Merata Mita can be heard speaking truths about decolonizing and in indigenize cinema. Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Releasing announced today that the film…
The youngest child of Merata Mita, the first Māori woman to write and direct a feature film, Heperi ‘Hepi’ Mita grew up with only a partial picture of who his mother was. A groundbreaking artist and activist who broke through barriers of race, class and gender in the 1970s, Mita sacrificed a great deal to give voice…
