RhondaKite
- Producer
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
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 ...”