Dick Reade

Sound recordist Dick Reade’s list of awards includes gongs for his work on The Navigator, Mt Zion, After the Waterfall and When Love Comes — and an Emmy nomination for TV’s Buggin’ with Ruud. In 2007 he was named SPADA/Onfilm industry champion. After more than a decade with state television, Reade went freelance in the early 80s, and alongside location recording ran a studio in West Auckland, recording, mixing and sound designing numerous albums and films such as Herbs: Songs of Freedom, Turbo Kid, Muru and Hunt for the Wilderpeople, for which he won Best Sound Design in a Feature Film in 2017 NZ Film and TV Awards.

These days Dick continues to work from his home studio in Northland.