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Merata Mita
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Film & TV
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
- Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen — Self (archive footage)2019
- Hautoa Mā! The Rise of Māori Cinema — Self (Footage)2016
- Pākiri: The Filmmaker, the Cook & the Singer — Self1999
- Kaleidoscope — Subject1987
- Making Utu — Self1983
- Kinleith '80 — Self - Narrator (voice)1983
- Utu — Matu1983
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- New Zealand
- Place of birth
- Maketu
- Place of death
- Auckland
- Spouse
- Geoff Murphy
- Occupation
- screenwriter
- Employer
- University of Hawaiʻi System
- Languages spoken
- English language
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- date of death
- 2010-05-31
- date of birth
- 1942-06-19
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