The Billy Armstrong Situation is an R-rated, full-length feature shot on film (Super 16mm) using Prime lenses.  Other cameras included Super 8mm film, digital video and VHS video. Film stock Kodak Vision 2.          Black & white film stock was also used, along with reversal cross-processing, for select scenes.  All of the video was projected onto a digital screen and re-shot with Super 16 mm film.

The story is essentially a quirky drama with an edgy sense of humor and is based on a play that was produced in Los Angeles, under the auspices of Equity's 99-Seat Theater Plan.  At The Attic Theater and also staged at The Tamarind Theater in Beechwood Canyon.

LOG LINE:  An interracial romance develops around a despondent, ex-minor league hockey player intent on killing a morally corrupt financial executive with Conservative political views.

22 total production days. Locations included Northern Idaho, Southern Alberta, San Francisco, the Pacific Coast Highway, Temescal Canyon, Lancaster, Studio City, Melrose Avenue, Long Beach and downtown Los Angeles (main location).

The Billy Armstrong Situation is Brian Kowalchuk's feature film debut as writer/director/producer, and is the English-speaking feature film debut of Mexican telenovella actress Marcela Pezet.