How to Meet Girls from a Distance

The team behind How to Meet Girls from A Distance should be applauded for doing the seemingly impossible by making a film in six months, and, even better, for making it genuinely funny.

– Reviewer Francesca Rudkin in The NZ Herald, 1 November 2012

Well-written, remarkably well-made and bloody funny, it won’t take you long to be rooting for this underdog.

– Flicks reviewer Steve Newall, 2012

[Toby's] earnestness, his little face with its eager-to-please vulnerability, allows us to like a character who does some not-nice things. It's this balance between opposing forces that drives the narrative — decency and deceit, learning and failure, comedy and sadness.

– Reviewer Rebekah Guy on Richard Falkner's performance as Toby, Auckland City Harbour News, 31 October 2012

I came out of seeing the film with a great sense of having shared an experience. ... we all laughed, clapped and exclaimed throughout the whole thing. 'Crowd-pleaser' has never been a more apt label.

– Reviewer Rebekah Guy, in the Auckland City Harbour News, 31 October 2012

...on Christmas Eve it was like 'Hey, congratulations! You’re in the final two! Now we need a full script by the 20th of January. Okay, well what have you got planned for your holidays? Cancel it!'

– Writer/director Dean Hewison on how the project was a rush from beginning to end, Flicks, 24 July 2021