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Merata Mita

Director, Writer, Producer [Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāi Te Rangi]

 Merata Mita

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Merata MitaDirector, Writer, Producer [Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāi Te Rangi]

A passionate advocate for Māori creative control, late director Merata Mita documented some of the most controversial events of Aotearoa’s last fifty years. Mita’s work includes Patu!, a documentary on the 1981 Springbok tour. Her 1988 drama Mauri remains only the second fiction feature directed by a Māori woman. 

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Swimming against the tide becomes an exhilarating experience. It makes you strong. I am completely without fear now. 

– Merata Meta, to writer Helen Martin (Listener, October 14 1989)

 
 

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