Twelve random tidbits you probably didn't know about the cast, crew, and production of Different Kinds.
1. It took Eileen Agosta over a year and a half and nine drafts to finalize Different Kinds.
2. The role of Sal was initially written for a male actor. During the third round of auditions, however, a stunning and talented actress by the name of Gina Di Tullio walked in and got the producers to thinking about a change in gender for the movie’s resident “bad guy.” After she read from the script with Chris Borden during a callback session, the director ran through the script and modified all of the gender-specific pronouns. Only one line of dialogue was added; not a single line was changed.3. Different Kinds was shot over four months in a total of seventeen shooting days, accumulating over 23 hours of footage. The final runtime of the film is expected to be just under 2 hours.
4. While Chris Borden, who stars as Jared, wears the same outfit for the majority of the film, he had the largest number of identical wardrobe and prop items. Throughout the shoot, Chris went through 9 white shirts, 12 square bandages, 3 sets of handcuffs and 2 guns.
5. Jackie Billotte, who stars as Natalie in Different Kinds, is an award-winning actress with over 12 years of theatrical experience. She was awarded Westword’s Award for Best Actress in a Drama in 2006 for her portrayal of Fatima in the Firehouse Theatre Co. production of Unmerciful Good Fortune.6. Different Kinds was shot in approximately 36 locations all across the Colorado Front Range, including Estes Park, Broomfield, Denver, Georgetown, and Woodland Park.
7. On one Thursday evening shoot, SFX Makeup Artist Megan Lapp worked for sometime with actress Britt Rodemich to create a realistic looking broken nail for Thursday night’s scenes. While shooting the very next night, Britt was knocked to the ground, actually ripping her own nail in the process.8. The producers had not originally intended on calling the final version of the film Different Kinds. The cast and crew got so used to referring to it with the working title throughout the four-month shoot, however, that it eventually stuck.
9. The car Natalie and Kate drive on their road trip in the film, a white 1998 Chevy Malibu, belongs to writer-director Eileen Agosta. With well over 115,000 miles on her and the signs of aging already becoming apparent before shooting even began, the production was quite rough on Eileen’s poor car. In one of the film’s more climactic scenes, which called for actor Chris Borden to start the car and drive away, the Malibu stalled on every take. 
10. Eileen Agosta and Damon Martens were both working the graveyard shift during the film’s production. The film was shot on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, which meant they would often get off work early Wednesday morning and stay up all day preparing for the long weekend of shooting. Saturday night they would return to work on little to no sleep. This lasted for approximately three months straight during the summer.11. Grouper Networks decided to feature both of the Different Kinds teasers prominently on their web site in February 2007. During their first few days featured they were viewed over 11,000 times , and the numbers are still climbing.
12. While the majority of the film was shot out of sequence, as is the norm with most film sets, the final scenes of Different Kinds happened to be shot last on the final weekend of shooting. The final shot from the final day of shooting also serves as the final shot of the film.
