Blue Moon

This really is inventive DIY film-making at its finest  . .  follows in the finest tradition of small but perfectly formed films such as the Coen brother's Blood Simple, and it's a textbook example of what's possible with a bit of imagination and a lot of tenacity.

– Stu Hunt reviewing Blue Moon in Auckland Now, 19 August 2018

It's busy. It's very very busy.

– Horace Jones (Mark Hadlow) lies to his wife about how his evening is going

We had this very small, simple camera, which meant that the performances led the film.

– Writer/director Stefen Harris on the advantages of filming Blue Moon on an iPhone, Fresh FM, 17 August 2018

You can get sidetracked chasing a million dollars year after year, project after project. So I just went back to my roots. It was either make a film on a budget or not make a film at all.

– Writer/director Stefen Harris on making Blue Moon for $12,000, The Press, 22 July 2018

We had a lot of offers of different high-spec cameras, but I knew we would end up fiddling about with the camera and losing time. We wanted the speed of the iPhone . . .  We didn't have time to kick back or rehearse anything very much at all . . . We were going flat out. There wasn't time to draw breath between takes.

– Writer/director Stefen Harris on filming fast, The Press, 22 July 2018

They could only shoot in the petrol station when it was closed between midnight and 5am. They filmed over six nights, giving them just 30 hours to wrap the whole film.

– Press writer Charlie Gates describes the filming of Blue Moon, on location in Motueka, 22 July 2018