A few thoughts from the directors....

Guy de Beaujeu

Peter Hunter was my next door neighbour and when he told me he was going on a poetry road trip through the Deep South I knew I just had to be there, mainly because Pete was the last person in the world I could imagine on a road trip, after all he can't even drive.

I was fascinated to see how he would get on with his brand of comedy poetry - I had always seen Pete as a very gentle, unassuming character, shy and a bit of a loner. But here he was announcing a trip with a fellow poet to New York and beyond. I sensed an opportunity to make a road movie about a fish out of water a long way from home.

But Pete didn't sink without a trace, far from it. Like many performers he is more comfortable on stage than off it, wherever that stage may be. And audiences loved his poetry and we loved hanging out with him as he travelled through the raw beauty of the Deep South, which is a dream backdrop to any movie.

The finished film sums up Peter perfectly – in many ways it is like the film Sideways, a gentle comedy with poetry replacing pinot.

Guy Paterson

When Guy called me to ask if I'd be interested in making this film with him the first thing that made my heart jump was when he said we'd be shooting in the Deep South. I'd shot in the USA before, but always around LA and was keen to do something cross-country.

That piqued my interest enough to head down to Bristol and go and watch Peter and David perform, which was an eye-opener. I'd heard about slam, but always thought it was an almost exclusively New York thing. But here in our own back yard was a healthy scene going on with some seriously good poetry and with our guys way out at the front of it.

Peter and David I liked straight away because they aren't typical documentary subjects. They're not loud and brash and 'big characters'. They're real, and flawed, and genuine. And everyone loved them for it, which is what we'd hoped. People wanted to hang out with these funny English guys with their funny poems.

It was fascinating watching them go through their journeys, and the things we hoped for them, and feared for them. And we hope audiences will enjoy it too.