I recently stopped by the WE CAME FROM THE BASEMENT SITE to shed a bit more light on my next film THE SHELTER, here’s an excerpt, read the whole thing HERE!

Tell me a bit about where the idea for The Shelter came from.

t was winter and I was walking back from a hockey game during a snow storm. I saw a homeless man sitting on the ground begging for change, he was obviously freezing. I felt bad for the guy, so I gave him a couple of bucks and kept walking. As I walked on, I started wondering how the man got to where he was now. Then I started inventing scenarios in my head about him trying to find shelter from the storm and what would happen if he did.  Once I arrived home, I had a found an initial premise for a script and jolted it down. I wrote the first 40 pages fairly quickly, but it took me 3 years to find the rest of the script. It was the first time (and hopefully the last) that happened to me; getting “stuck” on a script. With that, there was something about the story that resonated with me; I couldn’t give up on it for some reason. So for years I had The Shelter on my mind, always trying to solve it. And yes, I was elated when I FINALLY did.

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