Vincent Ward (b.
Greytown[?],
New Zealand 1956) is a
film director and screenwriter. He trained as an artist and made a number of noted short films before his first 'art-house' film
Vigil was shown at the
Cannes Film Festival. His next film,
The Navigator, was four years in the making and won six
AFI awards. After the romantic drama
Map of the Human Heart there was an abortive attempt to direct and script
Alien 3, but his central concept of monks aboard a giant wooden ark in space was dismissed by the film's backers and he left the project. Despite this his next feature moved away from the lower budget of his earlier works for an
Hollywood-based $90m feature in 1998.
Filmography (Directorial only)
Vigil (1984, director and writer), The Navigator: A Mediaeval Odyssey (1988, director and writer), Map of the Human Heart (1992, director and writer), What Dreams May Come (1998)