The whole film was shot in 23 days. Director Jared Hess cast many of his friends as actors, including Jon Heder (Napoleon) and Aaron Ruell (Kip) while relying on the Idaho locals to help get the film finished.

Hess reflected on the filming process, “We shot it in 23 days, so we were moving very, very fast; I just didn’t have a lot of film to be able to do a lot of takes. It was a bunch of friends getting together to make a movie. It was like, ‘Are people going to get this? Is it working?'”