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WayneVinten

  • Cinematographer
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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

NZ Women in Rock
2015 Camera Television
2014 Camera Operator Television
2014 Cinematographer - Sketches Television
2014 Cinematographer - Sketches Series
2013 Cinematogapher Television

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?”

Wayne Vinten, in a 2008 interview in Onfilm