WayneVinten
- 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.
Screenography
Awards
2008 Qantas Film and Television Awards (New Zealand)
Best Camera - Documentary/Factual Programme: for An Island Calling
2006 Air New Zealand Screen Awards
Best Camera, Documentary - Television: for The Promise
“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?”