Press Release

The journey toward this “labour of love” began more than ten years ago in the mid 90s at a high school in Scarborough, Ontario. A group of above average drama students, dedicated to and incessantly working toward the best they could possibly achieve were at the end of their high school career. Wanting to challenge themselves and their audiences as far as they possibly could, they and their teacher, BJ Castleman, decided to enter the annual Sears Drama Festival with a new play he was working on, “FALL, HOT RAIN.” It would not be an easy task. Its subject matter was controversial for the 90s and high school students: gay-bashing, vengeance and the nature of guilt.

Ten years later the leads of this play: Norbert Orlewicz and Matthew Hunt meet up with their high school Drama mentor (BJ Castleman) for coffee and reminiced about 'Fall, Hot Rain' and they all come to the same feeling that the project had not yet reached its end.

And so it was written.
A cracker-jack team was formed, some excellent performers, a great loft location and lots of exhaustion. The filming proceeded during the hottest week of the exceptionally hot summer. And in eight days – the film was in the can thanks to the perseverance of Director Revesz and Director of Photography Andrew Forbes who carried the camera strapped to his torso for almost all of the film.

So for less than $5000 (That’s real cash AND plastic.) a group of amateurs filmed “Fall, Hot Rain”. There was never enough of anything – especially time, manpower, air-conditioning. But there was an abundance of devotion. With bulldog clips holding the wiring, Chinese lanterns on broomsticks, and “flags” held in place by gaffer’s tape the production McGuyvered forward – propelled by nothing but enthusiasm and pizza. The team fell in love with the story and were bent on telling it in as clear and as honest a way as they could muster.