Kim also directs and produces factual content for digital platforms and broadcasters, including TVNZ, Sky Open and Whakaata Māori in New Zealand. Internationally, her work has screened on BBC4 and Al Jazeera, Amazon Video and Apple TV. 

Kim began her career in news and currents affairs at TVNZ where she worked on One News, 60 Minutes and consumer affairs programme Fair Go.

As a diverse filmmaker her work, includes stories from the Māori world and from her Chinese ancestry.  She is drawn to make social impact documentaries that both enlighten and entertain.

Kimihia Films

Kimihia Films takes its name from the Māori word kimi which describes a quest, search or hunt, as well as being a play on Kim Webby’s own name. 

Kim’s documentaries are quests to illuminate issues such as social injustice, or little-known worlds often from Māori or Chinese perspectives. They are stories that dominant culture overlooks or can’t easily access. Her people-centred stories invite outsiders in, to witness a diverse and sometimes confronting worldview. 

Kim’s desire to closely collaborate with those communities and with other filmmakers makes Kimihia Films an umbrella for other special purpose companies, that include fellow creatives and sometimes the story subjects as well.

She has helmed Kimihia Films for 21 years.