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

Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
2019
Boy
2010
Pākiri: The Filmmaker, the Cook & the Singer
1999
Hautoa Mā! The Rise of Māori Cinema
2016
The Land Has Eyes
2004
Utu
1983
Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata
2011
Hotere
2001
Mauri
1988
Spooked
2004
Making Utu
1983
Kaleidoscope
1987

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
7
Directing
11
Writing
6
Producing
11
2019
Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
as Self (archive footage)
2016
Hautoa Mā! The Rise of Māori Cinema
as Self (Footage)
1999
Pākiri: The Filmmaker, the Cook & the Singer
as Self
1987
Kaleidoscope
as Subject
1983
Making Utu
as Self
1983
Kinleith '80
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1983
Utu
as Matu