#Merata Mita
Caroline Monnet Selected by Sundance Institute For the 2023 Merata Mita Fellowship
Caroline Monnet is this year’s recipient of the 2023 Merata Mita Fellowship. A press release announced that the Anishinaabe/French multidisciplinary artist from Outaouais, Quebec has been...
Fox Maxy Named as Sundance Institute’s 2022 Merata Mita Fellow
Fox Maxy (Payómkawichum and Mesa Grande Band of Mission Indians) has been named as the recipient of the 2022 Merata Mita Fellowship, an annual fellowship designed to support Indigenous...
Filmmaker Leya Hale Named 2020 Recipient of Sundance Institute Merata Mita Fellowship
Filmmaker and PBS producer Leya Hale has received the 2020 Sundance Institute Merata Mita Fellowship. Named in honor of the late groundbreaking Māori filmmaker Merata Mita, the annual fellowship...
Trailer Watch: An Iconic Filmmaker Fights for Māori Stories in ARRAY Doc “Merata”
As the first Māori woman to write and direct a feature film, Merata Mita focused on telling New Zealand’s indigenous peoples’ stories on the screen. But as her son Hepi Mita notes in the...
Trailer Watch: A Filmmaker and Activist Is Honored in “Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen”
According to her son Hepi, the late filmmaker Merata Mita once said, “What you see when you look at an archival film are resurrections taking place.” She explained, “A past life...