5Q: MATTHEW BISSONNETTE / PASSENGER SIDE
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Matt Bissonnette
1Q: Tell us a little about the origins of PASSENGER SIDE, from concept to financing.
Well, I had always wanted to make a road movie, so I lifted the idea from the Wilco song “Passenger Side”, and then situated it in Los Angeles, as I live there, and it’s a big car town, and it’s sort of near to Modesto (relative to say Montreal, my home town), which is, of course, the location of American Grafitti, a movie I really like, and one I was thinking about while making Passenger Side.
Corey Marr, my trusty producer, raised the money through television pre-sales from our favorite people, Movie Central and The Movie Network, and then later Telefilm Canada stepped in with some finishing funds, so it was half capitalism, half socialism, like Vermont. Read more
Tags: 5Q, COMEDY, Corey Marr, CQ20, Matthew Bissonnette, Passenger Side.