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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]
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]
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]
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]
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