Close Up - Patu: Completing the Picture

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Close Up - Patu: Completing the Picture

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This August 1983 Close Up report reveals how making landmark documentary Patu! cost filmmaker Merata Mita financially, personally and spiritually. Alison Parr interviews Mita at her Auckland office, where a group of committed volunteers including veteran protestor Tim Shadbolt and Utu actor Anzac Wallace help distribute the film. Mita calmly relays her shock at the "viciousness" Patu! uncovered and how it affected her whānau. Bishop Desmond Tutu expresses his admiration, while Elizabeth Suth...

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1983

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https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/close-up-patu-completing-the-picture-1983

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