When Director Steve Schmidt began work on his first feature film, he knew he wanted to tell an "authentic northern Ontario" story. "Part of our intent was to make sure that northern Ontario was authentic," Schmidt told CBC's Up North. "That there were First Nations people and and French Canadian people and English people and that mix that you get in Northern Ontario that you sometimes don't when Northern Ontario is portrayed." "The idea of a little bit of climate change coming into the movie actually really worked with the theme, I think, to the Northern Ontario climate." They group showed the short film in Chapleau, and the band administrator Brian Edwards took an interest in the film.

Source: CBC News February 24, 2019 12:00 UTC