Quest for Shanghai
US book on Vincent’s Film
Making the Transformational Moment in Film, unleashing the power of the image, with the films of Vincent Ward, an American film book featuring Vincent’s films has just been published and is availalble on Amazon. It is also about to be released on Kindle and has been picked up by Chinese publisher who will translate it into Chinese.
Underwater Shoot
See TVNZ story on Vincent filming at Kelly Tarlton’s Underwater World for his new art show Breath.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1VG7RgDFF0
Readers and Writers Festival talk
Vincent Ward talked with BFM’s Charlotte Ryan about his book The Past Awaits, his film career and his up coming art exhibitions.
Auckland Art Gallery book signing
Vincent Ward read from his book, The Past Awaits: People, Images, Film, which details his two passions in life – film and painting.
Auckland City Art Gallery.
NZ Book Council talk
Vincent Ward and six others spoke on the theme ‘Blood is thicker than water’ at the Book Council’s True Stories Told Live event on November 2010.
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Book Launch ‘The Past Awaits’
The Past Awaits, a new book by Vincent Ward will be launched on November 14th 2010 in his home town of Greytown.
In this book of pictures and stories Vincent draws on his imagery and honest reflection to trace his film-making journey from a remote Maori community, to the Arctic and on to Los Angeles.
Acclaimed German director Wim Wenders (Buena Vista Social Club and Paris, Texas) said of the book “Magnificent” and “I don’t know if ever a book of pictures and stories moved me so much like Vincent Ward’s The Past Awaits. It will go into my suitcase for that lonesome island…”
Fellow New Zealand director Sir Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings Trilogy and King Kong) said ‘To read The Past Awaits is to take a journey into the imagination of Vincent Ward’ and that ‘The images have a power and strength that goes way beyond the context of the film they belong to.”
The Past Awaits will be in book stores in New Zealand from November 2010.
See The Past Awaits for more information on the launch and book.
NZ Landscape Architects talk
Vincent was invited to be the keynote speaker at the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architect’s Conference, “The Power of Landscape’, Te Papa Museum, Wellington, April 2010.
He addressed an audience of approx. 300 and talked about his films in relation to a sense of place, belonging and memory.
Prince Chatri Chalerm Yukol
Vincent Ward was honoured to meet with filmmaker and Thai prince, Chatri Chalerm Yukol at the Bangkok International Film Festival where Rain of the Children screened in 2008.
The Prince has enjoyed a prolific 28-year directing career. His love for filmmaking really took off while he was a student and in 2001 he worked together with his old UCLA classmate Francis Ford Coppola as Executive Producer on his historical battle epic The Legend of Suriyothai.
Shooting in Abu Dhabi & New York
Vincent Ward was working in the Emirates and New York City filming for the Abu Dhabi Cultural Island in February 2010. This project also involved digitally creating from architectural plans and models footage of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi and the Louvre Abu Dhabi amongst other buildings designed by renowned architects such as Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel, and Tadao Ando.
Retrospective in Poland
The largest festival in Poland, Era New Horizons, held a retrospective of Ward’s films in 2008.
Art Auction. Nov 1st Wellington
Vincent Ward’s Art to be auctioned along with leading New Zealand artists John Drawbridge, Grahame Sydney, Gary Tricker, Sheyne Tuffery and many more.
Sunday 1st November, 4pm at Willis York Gallery, 119 Taranaki Street Wellington
Tickets to this charity event available from Jane Kellahan 021 702 101 or art@janekellahan.co.nz