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KeithHawke

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  • Producer
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Keith Hawke was behind the camera on landmark TV series Tangata Whenua, and many other productions besides. In the 80s he reinvented himself in Asia as a director/producer of television and corporate videos, working in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia.

Screenography

Dancing with the Tsar
2010 Director, Camera Television
History Man
2004 Subject Television
Eye of the Storm - Burma
1980 Camera Television
The Valley of the Sacred Fire
1978 Cinematographer Short film

Biography

Cameraman turned producer Keith Hawke was born in the Otago town of Milton, and grew up in St Andrews, then Christchurch.

As a child, films were far from Hawke's mind. His father was a commercial tomato grower, and Keith spent many hours listening to radio legend Aunt Daisy while tending plants in the glasshouse. But university studies in plant sciences would have to be abandoned after he failed the required physics paper; Hawke was forced to examine other career options.

“I didn't touch a movie camera until the day that I decided to be a cameraman.”

— Keith Hawke

Related images

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Behind the scenes on landmark TV series Tangata Whenua: chief cameraman Keith Hawke is at the centre of the frame, assisted by Waka Attewell (in white shirt). Director Barry Barclay is standing on the right, behind the second camera.
Kindly supplied by Rick Spurway.
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Cameraman Keith Hawke and soundman Craig McLeod filming at Raglan for the first episode of Tangata Whenua. From left to right: Te Uira Manihera, Herepo Rongo, Michael King, Eva Rickard (obscured), Keith Hawke (holding camera) and Craig McLeod (below).
©The family of Michael King.