21 Dec 2015
Tati Express
Tati Express dives into Jacques Tati's films and how they look at a changing world throughout the 20th century. It shows how modernity impacts human-beings and goes through that amazing body of work at 100 mph.
Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
This film is an intimate portrayal of pioneering filmmaker Merata Mita told through the eyes of her children. Using hours of archive footage, some never before seen, her youngest child and director Hepi Mita discovers the filmmaker he never knew and shares the mother he lost, with the world.
Top Billed Cast
Rafer Rautjoki Self
Richard Rautjoki Self
Rhys Rautjoki Self
Awatea Mita Self
Eruera Mita Self
Jesse Wente Self
C.M. Kaliko Baker Self
Tammy Haili'opua Baker Self
Desmond Tutu Self (archive footage)
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