Merata Mita
June 19, 1942 (82 years old) in Maketu, New Zealand
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.
Known For
Credits
- 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
- 1984 · Utu as Matu
- 1983 · Making Utu as Self
- 1983 · Kinleith '80 as Self - Narrator (voice)