Kath Akuhata-Brown

Awa FIlms

BIOGRAPHIE

Kath Akuhata-Brown is a New Zealand film-maker of Māori descent (Ngāti Porou) Kath is a graduate of the Binger Film School in Amsterdam (2003). She has been a lecturer in screenwriting at Auckland Institute of Technology, a guest lecturer at Auckland University and a previous member of the film and television industry advisory panel to the board of Auckland University. Kath was a development executive at the New Zealand Film Commission and is currently a script development advisor to the Maori content funding body, Te Mangai Paho. Kath has produced several award winning short films directed by indigenous women, was a Director attachment (shadow) on Night Raiders directed by Danis Goulet, the first international indigenous co-production and is an advisor to a Netflix Original Australian Drama series Surviving Summer and to the New Zealand / UK Co-production drama series Mystic. In 2019 Kath shot a short film, Purea, which was selected for the NZ International Film Festival, ImagineNATIVE Film Festival, it featured in the catalogue at Tribeca, Clermont Ferrand and is to screen later this year in Washington DC. Kath is renowned for telling stories that are deeply authentic to her Māori cultural heritage. Washday is Kath’s first New Zealand Film Commission supported film and is set in the small rural East Cape community, Ruatoria where she grew up.

FILMOGRAPHIE