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February 9-16, 2023

Merata: How Mum Decolonized the Screen
This is the untold story of a remarkable, fearless woman, the first Indigenous Maori woman to solely write and direct a feature film in the 1970s. Merata Mita was a pioneering activist filmmaker seeking to decolonize the screen – as she said “our land gets taken, fisheries and forests get taken and …so do our stories”. Her documentaries highlight injustices faced by her people.
New Zealand 2018 (89 minutes)
12:00 PM
Saturday, February 15, 2020
Playing at: Vogue Theatre
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