Vincent Ward

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.

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