Co-writer and lead actor Richard Falkner plays the slightly awkward and creepy but sweet part of Toby in 'How to Meet Girls From a Distance.' Photo / Supplied
A low-budget New Zealand film written in two weeks and filmed in 17 days in a new initiative by groups including the New Zealand Herald had its Auckland debut last night at the New Zealand Film Festival.
How to Meet Girls From a Distance, created by a Wellington team of
budding filmmakers, is a romantic-comedy about a man searching for love in all the wrong ways. Going through rubbish bins may or may not be involved.
It won the Make My Movie competition, an initiative from the New Zealand Herald, the New Zealand Film Commission, NZOnAir and V48Hours organiser Ant Timpson, that saw anyone with a good idea pitch to get funding to turn that idea for a movie into reality.
With the tagline, "Get to know her, then meet her", the "peeping Tom rom-com" movie follows Toby, a 30-something guy who stalks future partners, gathering as much information about them as he can so he can turn himself into the man of their dreams.
The Herald's TimeOut section called it a "kooky, whimsical film about whether the ends justify the means when it comes to finding love."
