The film was originally going to be filmed as a short entitled "Son" in 2010, but was expanded upon and fleshed out in early 2012.
Shot in 8 weeks, entirely in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Parker Fox Hysmith (Dealer) is a friend of Ben Neal and Grant Douglas Bromley as well as a fellow filmmaker in Knoxville, TN.
The home-movie footage in the opening scene of the film is actual footage of Grant Douglas Bromley and his friend Andrew Price in one of their first short films made while in the 6th grade.
During a scene where Luke (Grant Douglas Bromley) wakes up in an alleyway covered in blood, a police officer approached the set convinced that the blood on Grant's face was real and that Ben Neal had "clocked him in the face to get a sweet pic."