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The Robert Redford-founded Sundance Film Festival is one of the biggest annual film events on the calendar. Earlier this week our own Libby Hakaraia was announced as the recipient of this years Merata Mita Fellowship.
Leya Hale, 36, lives in St. Paul. She was born and raised in the Los Angeles area. She is Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota and Navajo Dine. She is a storyteller, a documentary filmmaker and a producer with Twin Cities PBS (TPT), where she's been working for the past eight years. She graduated from California State University, Fullerton in Orange County, studying radio television and film. She attended graduate school at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion, S.D., where she earned a degree in American Indian Studies and worked as a production assistant on a documentary about women in the Red Power movement. This is where Hale says the door to filmmaking opened for her. Hale has won multiple regional Emmy awards for her work. She is currently the Merata Mita fellow at the Sundance Institute, an imagineNATIVE 2020 Native fellow and an ambassador with Thrive's “My Sisters are Warriors” initiative. Producer: Shaldon Ferris (Khoisan, South Africa) Interviewee : Leya Hale (Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota and Navajo Dine) Image: Leya Hale Music: "Anania2", by The Baba Project, used with permission. "Burn your village to the ground", by The Halluci Nation, used with permission.
Five years of painstaking work by Nga Taonga Sound and Vision film conservators has revealed previously obscured details in Merata Mita's landmark 1983 film PATU! The documentary focuses on the deeply controversial tour of the Springbok rugby team, and the deep rifts it caused between activists, the police, rugby fans, politicians - often members of the same families. New technology and fastidious attention to detail over thousands of hours have made the digital preservation and enhancement of the film possible. But the goal was never to make it look so perfect and high def that it could have been filmed yesterday. Nga Taonga Sound & Vision is about to show excerpts from PATU! as part of an exhibition called TOHE PROTEST. Lynn Freeman visits two of the key team members who worked on restoring the film - Richard Falkner and Gareth Evans TOHE PROTEST opens on Friday the 23rd of July at the National Library of New Zealand in Wellington.
Interview with director, Heperi Mita of Merata: How Mum Decolonized the Screen Kia Ora! On this episode of Holoholo, we sat down with documentarian and archivist Heperi Mita, son of the late prolific Maori filmmaker and activist, Merata Mita. Hear more about Heperi's quest to tell his mother's story and more! Thanks for tuning in! Shoots xx Sound Wizard: Aren Souza Contact: helloholoholo@gmail.com ~Holoholo is brought you by Flux Hawaii, a quarterly lifestyle magazine that reorients how people think about Hawaii, showcasing the vibrant arts, culture, and community that can be found in the isles. Pick up it's Migration-themed issue on newsstands now. Find it online at fluxhawaii.com~ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theholoholopodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theholoholopodcast/support
Heperi Mita shares his journey from being an archivist to making his debut film “Merata: How Mum Decolonised The Screen” an intimate portrait and tribute to his trailblazing mother, activist and Māori filmmaker Merata Mita.
This New Zealand documentary lays it all out in the title. It's a film about the Māori film-maker, activist and indigenous film pioneer Merata Mita made by her son Hepi.
Van sits down with New Zealand actor Cliff Curtis, known for his diverse filmography including roles in Training Day and Avatar. They talk about Cliff’s powerful documentary about pioneering Maori filmmaker, Merata Mita. They also touch on Cliff’s experience as an “ethnically ambiguous” actor in Hollywood and the hardships that indigenous people face all around the world.
Chelsea Winstanley is a filmmaker. She directed the documentary Tame Iti: The man behind the moko, and co-directed Waru, the heart-wrenching film about child abuse, made by 8 Māori female directors. Her producer credits include What We do in the Shadows, and the short film Night Shift. And most recently, she helped Hepi Mita make a documentary about his mum, the pioneering Merata Mita – sharing the stories of how she decolonised the screen. Now Based in Los Angeles with her husband and children, Chelsea is a world away from her home town of Mt Maunganui. And while there might be a few more red carpets in her life these days, this Te Puna girl has never forgotten how she got there. Today, we talk about that journey. She shares what it was like being a 21 year old single māmā having to rely to on a benefit, through to the life changing car accident that forced her to have to learn to walk again. She also talks about the realities of the film industry and the importance of indigenous representation on our screens.
Guest--Film Maker/archivist Heperi ‘Hepi’ Mita. of film 'MERATA" a 2019 Sundance Selected Film. The film pays tribute and showcases the work of A documentary portrait of the pioneering indigenous filmmaker and activist Merata Mita. Hepi is one of her sons. The documentary is an intimate tribute from a son about his mother that delves into the life of the first woman from an Indigenous Nation to solely direct a film anywhere in the world. ARRAY Releasing, which is headed by award-winning director Ava Duvernay, has acquired distribution rights for the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom.
Sue Berman picks up a conversation with curators Jacqueline Snee and Dena Jacob on their contribution to Wāhine Take Action. They discuss the case content reflecting the themes Mana Wāhine - Mana Reo - Mana Whēnua. Mana wāhine mana whēnua Mā te wāhine, mā te whēnua, ka ngaro te tāngata Humanity would be lost without women and land From Papatūānuku (the earth mother) came the first woman Hineahuone and from her came humankind. This hand coloured lithograph shows prominent land owner and wāhine rangatira Ngeungeu, the daughter of Tara Te Irirangi, the chief of Umupuia, Hauraki Gulf in the Bay of Islands (Ngai Tai) with her son James Maxwell. George French Angas The New Zealanders illustrated. London: Thomas M’lean, 1846. Mana wāhine : Mana reo Robyn Kahukiwa. Ngā Atua: Māori gods. Oratia: Oratia books, 2017. Dame Ngāneko Kaihau Minhinnick. Establishing Kaitiaki: a paper. 1989. From: Tanya Cumberland. Records. NZMS 1818. Concert party, Whiriwhiri, 1966. Valerie Muir, Footprints 07067. The New Suffragettes. From supplement ‘Sunday,’ Sunday Star Times, 27 May 2018. A prince and his people, Pakuranga, 1981. Stuff Limited, Footprints 00378. Gil Hanly. Hilda Halkyard-Harawira with her youngest daughter Anika, 1987. From: Broadsheet Collective. Records. NZMS 596. Gil Hanly. Hilda Halkyard-Harawira, 1986. From: Broadsheet Collective. Records. NZMS 596. Gil Hanly. Being arrested, Bastion Point March, 1982. From: Broadsheet Collective. Records. NZMS 596. Mana wāhine : Mana tāngata Gil Hanly. Photographs. From: Broadsheet Collective. Records. NZMS 596. Left to right: Tenth Anniversary of occupation of Bastion Point. 1988. Takaparawha, Bastion Point. Date unknown. Waitangi Day, Waitangi. 1984. Merata Mita. Date unknown. Waitangi Day protest. 1986. Waitangi Day protest Wellington. 1986. Titiwhai Harawira, Atareta Pononga, and Hana Te Hemara at Takaparawha. 1988. At Bastion Point. 1988. Cloak (Kahu) with hukahuka and kiwi feathers. Mana wāhine : Mana whenua New Zealand Graphic and Ladies Journal. 9 February 1895. Patricia Grace and Robyn Kahukiwa. Wāhine toa: women of Māori myth. Auckland: Collins, 1984. Group of Māori men, women and children, Māngere. About 1905. Māngere Historical Society, Footprints 01084. Andrew Pettengell. Protest art on Ihumatao Quarry Road Mangere. 2017. Photo ref: 1458-120.
Jacob and Doug dig in the the nonfiction cinema that has made an impact on their lives...add scotch to taste, and enjoy. Documentaries covered include: Quick Mentions 00:02:16 THE ACT OF KILLING (Joshua Oppenheimer & Anonymous, 2012) KATE PLAYS CHRISTINE (Robert Greene, 2016) BEST WORST MOVIE (Michael Paul Stephenson, 2009) CITIZENFOUR (Laura Poitras, 2014) I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO (Raoul Peck, 2016) STORIES WE TELL (Sarah Polley, 2012) Various Chris Marker films CAMERAPERSON (Kirsten Johnson, 2016) QUEST (Jonathan Olshefski, 2017) DINA (Antonio Santini & Dan Sickles, 2017) NZ Documentaries 00:11:49 PATU! (Merata Mita, 1983) ON AN UNKNOWN BEACH (Adam Luxton & Summer Agnew, 2016) THE GROUND WE WON (Christopher Pryor, 2015) Various Florian Habicht films TICKLED (David Farrier & Dylan Reeve, 2016) OUT OF THE MIST (Tim Wong, 2015) CINEMA OF UNEASE (Sam Neill & Judy Rymer, 1995) Notable Directors 00:26:41 Errol Morris Les Blank Werner Herzog Agnès Varda Frederick Wiseman Top Tens 01:04:14 THE CENTURY OF THE SELF (Adam Curtis, 2002) HIGHWAY (Sergei Dvortsevoy, 1999) THE EMPEROR'S NAKED ARMY MARCHES ON (Kazuo Hara, 1987) LOST IN LA MANCHA (Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe, 2002) CUADECUC, VAMPIR (Pere Portabella, 1971) MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES (Jennifer Baichwal, 2006) THE SALT OF THE EARTH (Juliano Ribeiro Salgado & Wim Wenders, 2014) BLIND LOVES (Juraj Lehotsky, 2008) STOP MAKING SENSE (Jonathan Demme, 1984) DEAR ZACHARY: A LETTER TO A SON ABOUT HIS FATHER (Kurt Kuenne, 2008) F FOR FAKE (Orson Welles, 1973) WE LIVE IN PUBLIC (Ondi Timoner, 2009) ALAMAR (Pedro González-Rubio, 2009) ONLY THE YOUNG (Elizabeth Mims & Jason Tippet, 2012) THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS (Lars von Trier & Jørgen Leth, 2003) ROOM 237 (Rodney Ascher, 2012) 5 FILMS ABOUT CHRISTO & JEANNE-CLAUDE (Albert & David Maysles et al, 2004) LEVIATHAN (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel, 2012) MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (Dziga Vertov, 1929) / DISORDER (Weikai Huang, 2009) TAXI (Jafar Panahi, 2015) / MAIDAN (Sergei Loznitsa, 2014)
How do we fill in the blanks of our own histories? This week on the podcast we speak with Mairi Gunn about moving from a career in the film industry to working in contemporary art. Speaking to host Mark Amery at the Pah Homestead we hear the backstory of her installation Common Ground, which looks at New Zealand Māori and Scottish Highlanders and their relationships to the land of their ancestors. In this wide-ranging conversation Mairi discusses working as a woman in the film industry, relational art, Merata Mita, public funding and having difficult conversations.
Multi-talented artist Mika is a busy man, he practically says yes to everything including the chance to launch a techno funk song with Lavina Williams, called Coffee. He talks about the song, his upcoming travel plans, and what important lessons he learned from Dalvanius Prime and Merata Mita.
Multi-talented artist Mika is a busy man, he practically says yes to everything including the chance to launch a techno funk song with Lavina Williams, called Coffee. He talks about the song, his upcoming travel plans, and what important lessons he learned from Dalvanius Prime and Merata Mita.
Whenua programme producer Libby Hakaraia interviewed film maker Merata Mita about māori stories portrayed in film.
Whenua programme producer Libby Hakaraia interviewed film maker Merata Mita about māori stories portrayed in film.