1. What motivated you to make this film?
Covid is the short answer. Charles (co-writer) and I were isolated across continents and in many FaceTime conversations we finally started to commit to a film project we had been talking about for a few years. It lived mainly as a script we would work on until Charles showed it to our director Cameron for notes. To which he signed on immediately and said he wanted to shoot. From there the only question was when.
2. From the idea to the finished product, how long did it take for you to make this film?
It took about four years. But that was mainly orchestrating a shoot across two continents with a global pandemic happening around us. The best part about that was we had plenty of time to refine the script and get it as comedically tight as possible. Removing any unnecessary expenses, jokes and in some cases characters. The shooting to edit part of the film took the shortest amount of time as our director and editor shared pretty much what we had in mind before filming began.
3. How would you describe your film in two words!?
Chaotic fun
4. What was the biggest obstacle you faced in completing this film?
Heat stroke. We filmed in Vancouver in the summer and decided to film a month before the heat dome that hit the year before... nature didn't abide by our planning so it hit us with a heat dome when we filmed and the entire set turned into a furnace. Our director and assistant director suffered heat stroke in the middle of the shoot.
5. What were your initial reactions when watching the audience talking about your film in the feedback video?
Surreal more than anything. We got used to having constant feedback from people we recognise and are in constant communication with so to hear kind words from complete strangers was really surreal.
6. When did you realize that you wanted to make films?
Ever since I was a child. I was a big fan of Lord if the Rings growing up. And when the extended editions came out I would watch the appendices and fell in love with the art of film making as well as film itself.
7. What film have you seen the most in your life?
Lord of the Rings. I don't know which one specifically as I always have to watch the complete series.
8. What other elements of the festival experience can we and other festivals implement to satisfy you and help you further your filmmaking career
A discord server could be fun. That way different creatives could get together. And if they happen to be in the same city could partner up for creating films and even sharing notes on scripts.
9. You submitted to the festival via FilmFreeway. How has your experiences been working on the festival platform site?
It's been great. It's very user friendly and doesn't make it too hard to navigate round especially when trying to search for comedy specific festivals.
10. What is your favorite meal?
I love a good carbonara. You can never go wrong with that.
11. What is next for you? A new film?
We're currently taking this short and trying to pitch it as a sit com for Canadian television. But we also have a few plays and some horror shorts in the works that we are very excited to put on in front of an audience.
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