Kath Akuhata-Brown

Kathryn Akuhata-Brown: Ngati Porou, Te Aitanga a Mate, Te Whanau a Tuwhakairiora, is a writer and over-bearing mother, apparently and according to her long suffering daughter.  She’s dragged her daughter to shoots and production companies since the poor kid was born 13 years ago.  Kath started life as a print journalist and then radio.  She joined the film and television industry back when editors still had to scroll though footage manually and before emails and cellphones.  She made the big time when  Shortland Street couldn’t get in touch with Briar Grace-Smith and no one else was answering their phones.   After she left Shortland Street she decided to try her hand at writing film and went to learn about it in Holland at the Amsterdam School of the Arts.  That year was a little hazy for her and she fell back to terra firma with a thud.  Kath enjoys her work at the moment, she’s making docos, consulting on film scripts and editing some of them, researching current affairs, writing and developing her own feature film, creating serial drama and threatening young boys who are making eyes at her teenage daughter.  She’s currently trying to convince the Electoral Office to let her back onto the Maori Roll after she accidentally ticked the wrong box in the last census.