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

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

[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

...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