Scarfies

... it’s easily the most outlandishly entertaining New Zealand film for years ...

– Reviewer Russell Baillie in The Christchurch Star, 6 August 1999

Go and see this film — not out of loyalty to the local industry but because it is genuinely funny.

– Graham Adams reviewing Scarfies in Metro, August 1999

I wanted to capture that gloomy feeling of mid-winter Dunedin. We had a six week shoot and we only had five days of exterior shooting — any time the weather was shitty we went outside and shot, any time it was beautiful and sunny we filmed inside.

– Director Rob Sarkies on trying to capture Dunedin's grey mid-winter look, Critic, March 2018

Duncan and I are quite different, but we have very similar sensibilities. I really like his writing, he enjoys my filmmaking and the two gelled.

– Rob Sarkies on writing the Scarfies script with his brother Duncan

We were locking these kids in a situation that was very difficult to get out of. And in the end we decided the main obstacle was their own naivety...the fact they're only 18, have never been flatting, never had to deal with the realities of life — let alone murder

– Rob Sarkies on the idea behind Scarfies, The Sunday Star-Times, 18 July 1999, page F1