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Sadie Kaye

Sadie Kaye is a Hong Kong television and radio presenter, filmmaker, writer and actress. She is best known as a writer,[1] presenter[2] and podcaster[3] on RTHK Radio 3.[4]

Sadie Kaye (2012)

Career edit

Kaye was raised in Sai Kung, Hong Kong.[5] After attending Murray Edwards College, Cambridge,[6] Kaye started in television presenting children's series Beezwacks on TVB[7][8] and children's quiz Eat Your Words on ITV.[9]

She created[10] and hosted[9] ETV comedy series Dinner Party[11] and appeared as an actress in sketch shows, including Sack the Writer.[12] She helped judge Channel 4 competition Comedy Circuit [13] and appeared on Channel 4 series The New Entrepreneurs.[14] In 2006 she was a partner in production company Blue Reef.[15]

She produced and presented a series of 3 Minute Wonders for Channel 4 about the 2009 Centre for Social Justice Awards[16] and documentary films Sailing Miss Sadie (2010)[17][18] and Tucker's Luck (2011)[19][20][21] for Sky. In both films she mentors young offenders from The Prince's Trust.[22][23][24]

She appeared as an actress in American western film West of Thunder (2012)[25][26][27][28] and British comedy FLIM the Movie (2014).[29][30] The former won Best Film on Human Rights from the Political Film Society in 2013[31] and the latter was nominated for a BIFA (Raindance Award) in 2014.[32][33]

In 2020 she co-produced Transference with the director and producers of Flim.[34] The film received a Special Jury Mention at the 2020 New York Socially Relevant Film Festival.[35][36] It was released by 1091 Pictures 10 November 2020.[37][38][39]

Kaye returned to Hong Kong in 2014. Having piloted the character in a sketch on Funny or Die,[40][41] she began presenting a variety of comic slots as 'Miss Adventure' on RTHK Radio 3's Afternoon Drive.[42][43][44] Since Sept 2020 she has written and performed a humor column 'Sharp Pains' on RTHK's 123 Show.[45]

She has produced and presented two documentaries about mental health for RTHK, Bipolar Express[46][47] and As Bad As It Gets.[48][49] Bipolar Express was Highly Commended in the Radio Creative Feature category by the Association for International Broadcasting in 2015.[50][51][52] As Bad As It Gets, about OCD, aired in 2019.[53]

Since 2020, she has presented 'Mental Ideas' as a weekly strand of RTHK Radio 3's 123 Show.[54][3][55] In the series she interviews a variety of guests about mental health, including cartoonist Larry Feign[3] and actor Philippe Joly.[56] She had previously appeared on the show as a guest.[57][58][59] The Mental Ideas Podcast was nominated by the Association for International Broadcasting for a 2020 AIB Award in the Factual Podcast category.[60][61][62][63]

Publications edit

Her children's book The Wishing Machine was published 31 October 2014.[64][65][66] In November 2020 Kaye was awarded a place in the Proverse Poetry Prize's 2021 anthology, Mingled Voices 5.[67][68] Since November 2020 her RTHK humor column Sharp Pains has been published as a column in the South China Morning Post.[69][70]

Charity edit

She set up and runs mental health nonprofit groups Bipolar Hong Kong[71][72] and Mental Ideas.[73][74][75] In 2020 she initiated a project to assist food waste charities feed the homeless during the pandemic.[76][77][78]

References edit

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