Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen Likewise, take the time to watch this, which is filmmaker and archivist Heperi Mita's feature documentary on his mother, director Merata Mita. Merata had a long and immensely influential career in Aotearoa and internationally, as one the very first women of an Indigenous nation to direct a feature film. Her movie Mauri was in our theatres in 1988. Merata's documentary Patu! on the protest movement that arose to confront the 1981 Springbok tour, is essential to really understanding our country at the time. Looking over the ditch to our cousins in t...