Bruno's Blues, was eight years in the making. Throughout the first four years of production producer/director Michael Simard also maintained a full time career as a professional commodities buyer for the restaurant industry.
Bruno's Blues was filmed entirely with a skeletal crew of only four. Each crewmember not only multi-tasked but also performed in the movie. Producer/writer/director Michael Simard served as production manager, DOP, gaffer, driver, editor, as well as the puppeteer & voice for Bones, the skeleton fortuneteller.
During the filming of the hot dog vendor robbery scene, set in an industrial parking lot in Vancouver, two vagrants wandered by and yelled out, "Are you shooting a movie?" The cast and crew nodded. One of the vagrants responded, "Well, It must be pretty low budget." His buddy, evidently the more film savvy of the two, accurately observed, "it looks more like NO budget."
Bruno's real house was in fact demolished during the course of filming. He came home one day after an extended absence to find a surprise demolition notice posted to the door of his rented house stating that the owners were tearing it down to rebuild a new house for themselves.
No wigs were harmed during production. Bruno Hubert, the film's lead actor/musician, grew out his own abundant and unruly hair for the making of this film.