Vincent Ward

Vincent Ward utilises early footage, his own to-camera narration, contemporary interviews with Tuhoe descendents, and magnificently recreated historical sequences...

Chris Neilson dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife.

Vigil has forever cemented its reputation in New Zealand cinematic history by being the first film to be in official competition at the uber prestigious Cannes Film Festival.

Visionary director Vincent Ward's Palme d'Or nominated fantasy following Griffin (Hamish McFarlane), a young 14th Century boy with acute psychic powers. Ward describes the film: "What I wanted to do was to look at the 20th century through medieval eyes..."