Merata Mita Movies

Making of documentary on the set of New Zealand's first epic Utu (1983),working with little money and dealing respectfully with matters of cultural p...

Covers the 12-week-long strike at Kinleith Pulp and Paper Mill, owned by New Zealand Forest Products in January 1980.

As the name of this short film promises, a filmmaker (Merata Mita),a cook (Anne Thorp) and a singer (Moana Maniapoto) sit down for an interview at Pā...

This Kaleidoscope documentary timed in with the release of Nicholas Reid’s book A Decade of New Zealand Cinema. The book cherrypicked Reid's favourite...

In New Zealand in the 1860s the native Māori people fought the British colonials to keep the land guaranteed to them by treaty. The warrior Te Wheke f...

This film is an intimate portrayal of pioneering filmmaker Merata Mita told through the eyes of her children. Using hours of archive footage, some nev...

Documentary Hautoa Mā! The Rise of Māori Cinema reveals the remarkable impact Māori have made on New Zealand cinema.