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Wayne Vinten

Cinematographer

Director of photography Wayne Vinten has spent his career trying to discover "the zen of invisibility". Vinten's attempts to remain inconspicious while carrying a camera have seen him shooting an extended CV of documentaries, among them hit film Untouchable Girls, Fiji doco An Island Calling, and his award-winning work on The Promise. Vinten's dramatic work includes early episodes of Outrageous Fortune, and junkie feature The Shirt.

By the time I was 24 I had shot Bob Marley’s last film with the late Dylan Tait, been threatened with physical violence by Steve McQueen, been arrested and deported from Khartoum...what are you going to do, retire? Wayne Vinten, in a 2008 interview in Onfilm

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Happy Hour

2014, Cinematographer - Sketches - Television

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Happy Hour - First Episode

2014, Cinematographer - Sketches - Television

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Topp Country - For the Love of the Topps

2014, Camera Operator - Television

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Street Hospital

2013 - 2016, Camera Operator - Television

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Street Hospital - First Episode

2013, Cinematogapher - Television

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Shackleton's Captain

2012, Cinematographer - Alpine Unit - Television

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Masterchef New Zealand - First Episode

2010, Cinematographer - Television

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The Secret Lives of Dancers

2010 - 2014, Cinematographer - Television

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The Secret Lives of Dancers - Episode Two

2010, Cinematographer - Television

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The Topp Twins - Untouchable Girls

2009, Cinematographer - Film

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Barefoot Cinema - The Life and Art of Cinematographer Alun Bollinger

2008, Cinematographer - Television

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An Island Calling

2008, Cinematographer - Television

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Burying Brian

2008, Cinematographer - Television

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Burying Brian - First Episode

2008, Cinematographer - Television

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The Last Western Heretic

2007, Camera - Television

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The Killian Curse

2006 - 2008, Director, Cinematographer - Television

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The Killian Curse - First Episode

2006, Additional Director , Cinematographer - Television

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Outrageous Fortune - First Episode

2005, Cinematographer - Television

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Miss Popularity - Episode Two

2005, Cinematographer - Television

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Miss Popularity - Series Excerpts

2005, Cinematographer - Television

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Outrageous Fortune

2005, Camera - Television

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The Promise

2005, Cinematographer - Television

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Living the Dream - Full Series

2004, Camera Operator - Television

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Wrestling with the Angel

2004, Camera - Television

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Freaky - First Episode

2003, Cinematographer - Television

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Pavlova Paradise Revisited - Episode Three

2002, Camera - Television

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Pavlova Paradise Revisited - Episode Two

2002, Camera - Television

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Pavlova Paradise Revisited - First Episode

2002, Camera - Television

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Destination Disaster: The Sinking of the Mikhail Lermontov

2000, Second Unit Camera - Television

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My Name is Jane

1999, Cinematographer - Television

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Mouth Wide Open: A Journey in Film with Ted Coubray

1998, Camera - Film

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The Topp Twins - Do Not Adjust Your Twin-Set: The Beach

1996, Camera Operator - Television

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The Topp Twins - Do Not Adjust Your Twin-Set: A & P Show

1996, Camera Operator - Television

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The Shadow of Vietnam

1995, Camera - Television

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All About Eve

1994, Camera - Television

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Votes for the Girls

1994, Camera Operator - Television

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An Immigrant Nation - Dalmatian At Heart

1994, Camera - Television

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An Immigrant Nation - The Footprints of the Dragon

1994, Camera - Television

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An Immigrant Nation - The Unbroken Thread

1994, Camera - Television

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An Immigrant Nation - Just Slightly A People Apart

1994, Camera - Television

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A Double Standard

1994, Camera - Television

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Edifice

1993, Cinematographer - Television

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The Nineties

1993, Camera - Television

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Typhon's People

1993, Cinematographer - Television

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A Whale's Tale

1992, Cinematographer - Television

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Bungay on Crime - A Ferry Tale

1992, Cinematographer - Television

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Undercover

1991, Cinematographer - Television

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Visual Symphonies - The Outback

1991, Cinematographer - Television

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Shark in the Park - Prospects (Series Two, Episode One)

1990, Cinematographer - Television

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The Night Workers

1989, Camera - Television

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Public Eye

1988 - 1989, Camera - Television

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A Nuclear Free Pacific (Niuklia Fri Pasifik)

1988, Camera - Film

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Public Eye - First Episode

1988, Camera - Television

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Send a Gorilla

1988, Cinematographer - Film

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The Marching Girls - Mahara's Story

1987, Cinematographer - Television

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The Fire-Raiser - Kitty Plays the Piano (Episode Three)

1986, Camera - Television

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Radio with Pictures - 1985 reggae special

1985, Concert Camera - Television

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Inside Straight - Card Game (Episode Seven)

1984, Camera Operator - Television

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Inside Straight

1984, Camera - Television

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Pioneer Women - Hera Ngoungou

1983, Camera Operator - Television

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Pioneer Women - Princess Te Puea

1983, Camera Operator - Television

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The Beginner’s Guide to Prisons

1983, Camera - Television

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Country Calendar - Daggy and the Dickheads

1982, Camera - Television

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Casualties of Peace

1982, Camera Operator - Television

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Johnstone's Journey - Settling for Suburbia

1978, Camera Assistant - Television

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Johnstone's Journey - A Century of Wendelkens

1978, Assistant Camera - Television

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Will the Real Mr Claus Please Stand Up

1977, Camera - Television

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John Rowles

1976, Camera - Television

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Ready to Roll - Nice One Stu excerpts

1975, Camera - Television

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Country Calendar

1966 - ongoing, Camera - Television