Hell for Leather

Television (Full Length) – 1999

After years of success manufacturing shoes, employing struggling members of the South Auckland community, and feeding hungry kids with the proceeds, entrepreneur Karroll Brent-Edmondson hit hard times in 1998. This 70-minute documentary follows Brent-Edmondson as she attempts to get her business back on track, and avoid liquidation, under the guidance of a committee led by Dick Hubbard. Brent-Edmondson was named 1995 Māori Businesswoman of the Year, and went on to feature in Top Shelf documentary A Hell of a Ride. She passed away in June 2006.

She was shocked by the poverty she saw in South Auckland. Kids with no shoes, kids going hungry. Karroll decided to make affordable shoes, and in 1991 she set up a footwear factory and called it KT Footwear — Karroll's Team. She hired Māori and Pacific Islanders, including the unskilled and the long-term unemployed ... Karroll used the profits from the business to make hot school lunches for 30 South Auckland schools.
– Narrator Matt Spicer, on Karroll Brent-Edmondson's community efforts