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AnnabelleLee-Mather

Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Māmoe
  • Producer
  • Journalist
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Award-winning journalist Annabelle Lee-Mather began her TV career on te reo Māori news show Te Kāea, when Māori Television launched in 2004. She worked for the broadcaster for 11 years, where she ended up executive producing current affairs show Native Affairs. In 2015, Lee-Mather — the daughter of politician Sandra Lee — moved to production company Great Southern Television to produce The Hui. One of her biggest success stories to date is creating hit reality show The Casketeers. 

Screenography

NZ Wars: Stories of Tauranga Moana
2024 Executive Producer, Co-Producer Web
Friends Like Her
2024 Executive Producer Series
NZ Wars - Stories of Wairau
2023 Executive Producer Web

Awards

2024 New Zealand Television Awards / Ngā Taonga Whakaata O Aotearoa
Best Māori Programme (with Annabelle Lee-Mather): for NZ Wars: Stories of Tauranga Moana
Nominated for Best Reo Māori Programme (with Whatanui Flavell): for Waka Huia 

“I really love storytelling and the craft and camaraderie of making television. I still get goose bumps heading out into the field to shoot a good yarn with a great crew.”

— Annabelle Lee-Mather, January 2020