Rhonda Hyde, of Auckland, ONZM, for services to media technology, television and film
Rhonda Kite has produced several successful television documentaries and dramatic series. She produced the long-running Māori arts programme ‘Kete Aronui’ and the feature-length documentary film ‘Squeegee Bandit’. She founded the Kiwa Media Group and pioneered the re-voicing of cartoons into te reo Māori, overseeing the creation of the post-production dialogue-recording software VoiceQ, which is now sold globally. Kiwa Digital has evolved into an innovator and producer of digital books, featuring instant translation into several languages. The KIWA SLAM workshop, known internationally as ‘VOICES of Children’, was first rolled out in the United States and later in New Zealand. ‘VOICES’, a storytelling literacy workshop, assists children in publishing their own stories. Ms Kite is CEO of the start-up KIWA FZ-LLZ, an expansion of KIWA (NZ) into the United Arab Emirates.