Skip to main content

RhondaKite

Te Aupouri
  • Producer
Rhonda-Kite-profile-image.jpg

Producer Rhonda Kite founded company Kiwa Media Group, which developed a successful programme to aid dubbing and dialogue recording, and made long-running Māori Television arts series Kete Aronui. Kite's award-winning slate of documentaries includes films on the Ōtara community, gangs, whāngai, and squeegee bandits. Kiwa Digital went on to focus on creating interactive books for mobile devices.

Biography

Rhonda Kite, who heads company Kiwa Media, has worked as a producer on many documentaries, as well as anthology series Mataku and feature-length doco Squeegee Bandit.

Screenography

Wairua Auaha
2012 Subject Short film
Aunty Moves In
2009 Producer Series
2007 Executive Producer Television
2007 Executive Producer Television

Awards

2018 Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit
For 

2009 Nepal International Indigenous Film Festival
Golden Drum for Best Documentary (shared with Sandor Lau): for Squeegee Bandit

“Rhonda is a great modern-day example [of political astuteness and business savvy] — a Māori woman who owns and manages a substantial multi-media enterprise ...”

MP Ruth Dyson pays tribute to Kite at the launch of Mana Wahine week, 2004