A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Maketu, New Zealand
Born:
June 19, 1942
Died:
May 31, 2010
Merata Mita, CNZM was a New Zealand actress and filmmaker, as well as a key figure in the growth of the Māori screen industry. Mita was from the Māori tribes of Ngāti Pikiao and Ngāi Te Rangi.
Co-Producer:
2010 Boy
Director:
1979 Keskidee Aroha
1980 Bastion Point: Day 507
1983 Patu!
1988 Mauri
1990 Mana Waka
1996 Dread
2001 Hotere
2010 Boy
2011 Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata
2020 March
???? The Drum
Executive Producer:
1979 Keskidee Aroha
1980 Bastion Point: Day 507
1983 Patu!
1988 Mauri
1990 Mana Waka
1996 Dread
2001 Hotere
2004 The Land Has Eyes
2010 Boy
2010 Papa Mau: The Wayfinder
2011 Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata
2020 March
???? The Drum
Producer:
1979 Keskidee Aroha
1980 Bastion Point: Day 507
1983 Patu!
1988 Mauri
1990 Mana Waka
1996 Dread
2001 Hotere
2004 Spooked
2004 The Land Has Eyes
2010 Boy
2010 My Weaponry
2010 Papa Mau: The Wayfinder
2011 Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata
2020 March
???? The Drum
Screenplay:
1979 Keskidee Aroha
1980 Bastion Point: Day 507
1983 Patu!
1988 Mauri
1990 Mana Waka
1996 Dread
2001 Hotere
2004 Spooked
2004 The Land Has Eyes
2010 Boy
2010 My Weaponry
2010 Papa Mau: The Wayfinder
2011 Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata
2020 March
???? The Drum
Second Unit Director:
1979 Keskidee Aroha
1980 Bastion Point: Day 507
1983 Patu!
1988 Mauri
1990 Mana Waka
1996 Dread
2001 Hotere
2004 Spooked
2004 The Land Has Eyes
2010 Boy
2010 My Weaponry
2010 Papa Mau: The Wayfinder
2011 Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata
2020 March
???? The Drum
Writer:
1979 Keskidee Aroha
1980 Bastion Point: Day 507
1983 Patu!
1988 Mauri
1990 Mana Waka
1996 Dread
2001 Hotere
2004 Spooked
2004 The Land Has Eyes
2010 Boy
2010 My Weaponry
2010 Papa Mau: The Wayfinder
2011 Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata
2020 March
???? The Drum
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.