Ava DuVernay made history at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival when she became the first Black woman to take home the Directing Award for U.S. Dramatic Film. She won the honor for “Middle of Nowhere,” her second feature. Now the trailblazer — who also made history as the first woman of color to helm a $100 million-plus film with 2018’s “A Wrinkle in Time” — is paying tribute to another groundbreaking female filmmaker at Sundance. Her distribution, arts, and advocacy collective, ARRAY, has acquired the rights to the documentary “Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen” out of the Sundance, Variety confirms.

Merata Mita became the first indigenous woman to write and direct a narrative feature in the 1970s. She strived to boost the on-screen representation of women and marginalized communities in the hopes of improving their daily lives. A former adviser to the Sundance Institute, the New Zealand filmmaker died in 2010. “Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen” is helmed by her son, archivist Hepi Mita.

Check out screening info for “Merata” at Sundance on the fest’s website. The trailer for the film is below. “I always have this desire to do things — not well — but as brilliantly as possible,” Mita explains. “Once the work shows that you’re capable of doing something, then all the other prejudices about race and sex, they perhaps fall away.”