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Vincent Ward has won an international reputation as an original and visionary filmmaker. Vigil and The Navigator played in competition at the Cannes Film Festival (the first New Zealand features to do so). Docudrama Rain of the Children (2008) revisited people from his 1980 documentary In Spring One Plants Alone. Ward also directed Robin Williams afterlife drama What Dreams May Come.

Screenography

A Persistent Vision
2013 Subject Short film
Rain of the Children
2008 Writer, Director Film
Talk Talk - Series One
2008 Subject (episode 10) Television

Biography

Vincent Ward, ONZM, is one of the most acclaimed directors to emerge from New Zealand. His films have won praise here and overseas for their distinctive vision and atmosphere. Images in films like Vigil and The Navigator of lone characters in wild landscapes have staked their place in New Zealand screen history.

Awards

2008 Era New Horizons Film Festival (Poland)
Grand Prix in International Section (Audience vote): Rain of the Children

2008 Qantas Film and Television Awards (New Zealand)
Nominated for Achievement in Directing in Film: for Rain of the Children

“I'm interested less in objective or social realities than in private realities, so it's a special kind of landscape I'm exploring, an interior landscape.”

— Vincent Ward

Related images

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At the premiere of River Queen in Wanganui. From left is director Vincent Ward, producer Don Reynolds and actor Temuera Morrison.
Photographer: Bill Kearns. Kindly provided by The Dominion Post.
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Director Vincent Ward (right) and focus puller Rick Allender on location at a North Taranaki farm while filming Vigil.
Kindly provided by Onfilm.
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Vincent Ward with Puhi in the film In Spring One Plants Alone.
Kindly provided by Vincent Ward
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Director Vincent Ward with Producer john Maynard.
Photographer: Don Roy. Kindly provided by The Dominion Post
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Vincent Ward in front of the movie poster for The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey.
Photographer: Don Roy. Kindly provided by The Dominion Post.
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Director Vincent Ward, 16 January 1989.
Photographer: John Selkirk. Kindly provided by The Dominion Post
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On The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey set at Lake Harris from left: Greg Stitt (1st AD), Vincent Ward (Director), Geoff Simpson (Director of Photography), and Nick Mayo (Focus Puller).
Photographer: Geoff Short. Kindly provided by Onfilm.
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Editing Vigil: director Vincent Ward, editor Simon Reece and assistant editor Prue Burch (now better known as mindfulness expert Vidyamala Birch).
Kindly provided by Onfilm
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Director Vincent Ward and editor Simon Reece, hard at work on Ward's first feature Vigil (1984).
Kindly provided by Onfilm