This will be the debut short feature of Thijs Boonen as a director.
Thijs Boonen moved to Tucson in 2012, this move inspired him to write the story ~Mariachi~
The whole film was shot in 3 days in and around Tucson,AZ.
The ending dream sequence of the film was shot in Cowtown Keeylocko, a local venue and ranch of southern Arizona. The town was built by Edward Keeylocko himself. There is no electricity in the town so the production crew had to run the scenes on battery power alone, utilizing natural light and gathering scenes as the sun moved.
Roy Montelongo, the lead in the film, is an actual mariachi who performs in southern Arizona.