TonyWilliams
- Director
Tony Williams' contribution to the development of New Zealand's screen industry has been huge: his camerawork for John O'Shea's 60s feature films, the nine ground-breaking documentaries he directed for Pacific Films, and his feature Solo, which helped launch the 1970s new wave. After moving to Australia in 1980, Williams continued to wield a lively influence on our culture by directing many legendary commercials.
Screenography
Biography
After shooting two feature films in the 1960s, Tony Williams went on to make a major contribution to the development of the New Zealand screen industries via nine ground-breaking indie documentaries he directed for Pacific Films, and his feature-film Solo, one of the earliest films of the 1970s Kiwi new wave.
Awards
1990 Australian 'AWARD' Awards (Australia)
Best Commercial of the Decade: 'Dear John' - BASF
1983 Mystfest (Italy)
Special Mention: Next of Kin
“Television commercials don’t give the satisfaction of personal vision in an auteur movie sense - but there’s more satisfaction in creating cultural icons that the whole country talks about and loves, than a movie that flops and no-one sees.”
Related images
Tony Williams on the set of the Crunchie Great Train Robbery advertisement, circa 1975.
Kindly supplied by Tony Wiliiams
(L-R) director Tony Williams, actress Jackie Kerin and DoP Gary Hanson on the set of Next of Kin.
Kindly supplied by Tony Williams.
Tony Williams on set of the Crunchie Great Train Robbery advertisement, circa 1975.
Kindly supplied by Tony Williams.
Tony Williams and crew on the set of the Hyundai Santa Fe advertisement. Tony holds the star of the advertisement.
Kindly supplied by Tony Williams.
