Brandon Rhiness Is A Rising Edmonton Filmmaker One look at your resume and it’s easy to see that you are a busy guy. Let’s talk about one of your recent projects – Hot Box. What can you tell us about it? I originally wanted to shoot a feature length movie that I would direct myself; of course we didn’t have a lot of money so the idea was it was originally going to take place all in and around a car. There’s a car at some sort of house party or bush party and people would go to this car to smoke weed. All this drama and comedy would happen inside and around the car. That’s where it started, but it stated morphing into a bigger story where we would have inside stuff too, inside the house party, and so me and my co-producers started adding storylines and funny things that could happen and next thing you know it’s kind of taking on a life of its own and became a big story. A lot of it happens in a car, but a lot of it happens inside this house too and there’s all these intersecting storylines…kind of like love stories and a few other funny stuff, like a band breaking up and there’s a guy that’s trying to propose to his girlfriend and doesn’t realize that she’s cheating on him and there’s a drug dealer that’s having a crisis of conscience and decides that he wants to help the environment instead of being a drug dealer and all these funny, intersecting stories. That’s how it all came about.