What did Tom Hunt, Sam’s son, have to say about Purple Balloon and other stories?
“Definitely one of the joys of having a well-known dad is that documentaries such as Sam Hunt: Purple Balloon and Other Stories get made about him.”
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Stacey Wood in the Dominion Post wrote:
Wellington film-makers Tim Rose and Jim Scott put their friendship with New Zealand’s best-known poet on the line when they made a film about his life.
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The Capital times wrote:
WHEN filmmakers Jim Scott and Tim Rose applied to the Film Commission for financing their documentary about poet Sam Hunt, they were told: “why would we want to fund a movie about a drunken hippy poet?”
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DVD out July 2012