Merata Mita Movies

  • 1983
    Making Utu

    Making Utu

    Making Utu

    01983HD

    Making of documentary on the set of New Zealand's first epic Utu (1983),working with little money and dealing respectfully with matters of cultural p...

    Making Utu
  • 1983
    Kinleith '80

    Kinleith '80

    Kinleith '80

    01983HD

    Covers the 12-week-long strike at Kinleith Pulp and Paper Mill, owned by New Zealand Forest Products in January 1980.

    Kinleith '80
  • 1999
    Pākiri: The Filmmaker, the Cook & the Singer

    Pākiri: The Filmmaker, the Cook & the Singer

    Pākiri: The Filmmaker, the Cook & the Singer

    01999HD

    As the name of this short film promises, a filmmaker (Merata Mita),a cook (Anne Thorp) and a singer (Moana Maniapoto) sit down for an interview at Pā...

    Pākiri: The Filmmaker, the Cook & the Singer
  • 1987
    Kaleidoscope

    Kaleidoscope

    Kaleidoscope

    01987HD

    This Kaleidoscope documentary timed in with the release of Nicholas Reid’s book A Decade of New Zealand Cinema. The book cherrypicked Reid's favourite...

    Kaleidoscope
  • 1984
    Utu

    Utu

    Utu

    71984HD

    In New Zealand in the 1860s the native Maori people fought the British colonials to keep the land guaranteed to them by treaty. The warrior Te Wheke f...

    Utu
  • 2019
    Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

    Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

    Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

    6.72019HD

    This film is an intimate portrayal of pioneering filmmaker Merata Mita told through the eyes of her children. Using hours of archive footage, some nev...

    Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen