Kombi Nation

The plan was to be in a guerilla mode really, so we could go anywhere and shoot anything at any time ... so if something came up or something happened we could just cope with it.

– Director of photography Simon Riera

I’m really pleased that we managed to capture the spirit of this journey that Kiwis have been making for what’s now generations: since the 60s people have been going to London, buying a Kombi van and doing this journey. And we got it, we got it on film.

– Director Grant Lahood

The dramatic and comic potential of this clever set-up is rich enough but Lahood ups the ante by introducing a snake in the grass: Scott (Whyte) ... He is both less and more than he seems. (Director) Grant Lahood has a sure sense of the chaos of that form of travel, which is sort of like mixed flatting in a space the size of a ping-pong table ...

– Peter Calder in the NZ Herald, 11 October 2003