Landfall - A Film about Ourselves

I live in a country where people are constantly searching for a dream ... but always they bring with them the values of the old ... so it continues. But at least they have dreamed a dream.

– Elizabeth (Gael Anderson)

It is necessary to act.

– Elizabeth (Gael Anderson)

We have no cause as such.. we’ve no need to convince anyone, except possibly ourselves.

– John (John Anderson)

Landfall was an attempt to find a modern parable for the story of the founding of this country. It was intended to be a film about ourselves, as we find ourselves, here and now, and occasionally wonder why.

– Director Paul Maunder, in the programme for the 1977 Wellington Film Festival

[State television], who had paid for Landfall to be made, were now refusing to show it because of operating under a more commercial regime, and I can only be very thankful, both then, and now, that the Festival was there to pick it up.

– Director Paul Maunder on the film's debut at the Wellington Film Festival, NZ International Film Festival website, 2011