In Passing

Which way are you walking?

– Lily (Lydia Bensky) starts a conversation, and a relationship with Vincent (Arlo Green)

I had written a couple of feature-length screenplays while living in Europe which I was trying to get made; but being 21 or 22 at the time made it quite a hard sell no matter which way you looked at it. So I returned to Aotearoa to shoot what eventually became In Passing. Despite also working for years on more commercial projects, and therefore having a good handle on the practical mechanics of filmmaking, the divide between anything I’d previously done and the reality of making a movie was a large, but satisfying, leap.

– Director Joshua Prendeville on making his first feature In Passing, Stuff, 28 June 2022

The thing I love about film is the way in which it encapsulates and expresses desire in such a complete and consuming way. It is a medium that is so vast and expansive, but equally so intimate and fragile

– Writer and director Joshua Prenderville on the magic of film making, Stuff, 28 June 2022