Hang Time

....I can see why girls like this; I feel so safe.

– Harry (Hayden J Weal) after hugging his friend Ants (Nick Davies)

Hang time is a new world wine term for the length of a vine's growing season; the longer the grapes hang on the vine before harvest, the greater depth of flavour in the final wine. This also applies to our three heroes, who each need a little more time on the vine.

– Hang Time writer/director Cathasaigh Ó Fiannachta and producer Steve Barr

There is always going to be a place for female filmmakers to go out and tell women's stories. But I think there's also a really important place for women to present a version of men — how we see them.

– Writer/director Cathasaigh Ó Fiannachta in a Stuff interview, 26 July 2018

Hang Time is an easy film to like. The setting is fantastic, the cast are likable and enthusiastic and the story is light, relatable and mostly pretty briskly conveyed ... All films want to be liked, whether the makers know it or not. It's rare to see a film that wears that want so openly, and even rarer to see one that achieves it so winningly, with so few moving parts.

– Graeme Tuckett, in a three and a half star review, Stuff, 14 February 2019