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.
