A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Heperi Mita
Heperi Tikitere Mita
Birthplace:
New Zealand
Hepi Mita (of the Māori Ngāti Pikiao and Ngāi Te Rangi) is from Aotearoa, New Zealand. Since 2011, Mita has worked as the Māori collections developer at Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision—New Zealand's archive of film, television, and sound. He has curated film-archive screenings both nationally and internationally. He is the son of award-winning filmmakers Geoff Murphy and Merata Mita. MERATA: How Mum Decolonised The Screen is Mita's first feature film.
Director:
2019 Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
2020 March
Producer:
2019 Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
2020 March
2024 First Horse
Screenplay:
2019 Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
2020 March
2024 First Horse
Writer:
2019 Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
2020 March
2024 First Horse
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.