GeoffChapple
- Writer
Geoff Chapple, ONZM, won an NZ Film Award for Vincent Ward fantasy The Navigator. Chapple co-wrote the script, and also co-authored Ward's book Edge of the Earth. Chapple's other books include Rewi Alley of China, written after he scripted two documentaries about Alley. Later Chapple co-directed The Second Blade of Grass - Rewi Alley's Life in China. He also co-wrote awardwinning short Talkback, co-founded percussion ensemble From Scratch, and initiated national walking trail Te Araroa. He helped win interest in the trail by walking the length of the North Island, becoming one of Aotearoa's earliest bloggers along the way.
Screenography
Awards
2012 Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM)
For services to tramping, tourism and literature
1989 New Zealand Film and TV Awards
Best Original Screenplay (shared with Vincent Ward and Kely Lyons): for The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey
“The Navigator stars were due at the premiere in a cart drawn by draught horses, but a wheel broke, and they went by limo. So my wife and I rode the big horses up Queen Street to the Plaza anyway — a great ride.”