PRODUCTION NOTES
by Jonathan Culp

At the climax of Grilled Cheese Sandwich a title screen unexpectedly announces 'A True Story.' Much of the movie's narrative is a weave of various tales that were told and retold in the folklore of my adolescence at Grimsby Secondary School. (The voyeuristic yarns of Skater One are a nod to this storytelling culture.) Whether the stories themselves are true or not is lost to history, but I can verify that they are, truly, stories.

And yes, there really was a high school grilled cheese sandwich club, it really was forced underground, and they really did announce "There will be NO GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICH CLUB!" over the PA. The real-life club was no revolutionary cel; it was led by then-student at GSS, Dave Brooman. His sister Fyonna Vanderwerf performs 'the voice' on the high school intercom.

Glossing over the ten years it took to craft this material into a coherent narrative, the journey of Grilled Cheese Sandwich starts with it being rejected by every level of arts funding imaginable - national, provincial, municipal, and co-op. This left but one avenue to pursue - my mom, who furnished the minuscule budget, housed transient cast and crew on her basement floor, and (I'm blushing) cooked the meals.

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