Todd Giglio and Christopher Springer met in the fall of 1986 as freshmen theater majors at SUNY Fredonia.  At that time, they had no idea how much they would impact each other's lives.  After graduating in 1990, they each toured the country with different theater troupes and reconnected in 1991 and shared an apartment in New York's Hell's Kitchen.  They worked menial jobs, drank cheap beer and tried to get their careers off the ground.  They would often spend their days rollerblading around Manhattan and end up in Battery Park City in the shadow of the Twin Towers.  They would stare at the yachts docked there and think, "someday..."

Well, "someday" unfortunately never came and they continued to struggle to find their way through the business.  Todd eventually gave up acting to pursue music, a decision that would get him cast in an independent film starring Adam Ant and Deborah Harry.  Despite these small bites, success eluded them.

As the years went by, the "domestic bug" bit and the two would marry sisters (another story altogether) and settle in the suburbs of New York City.  Although they lived just a few miles apart in Westchester County, they didn't see too much of each other outside of family functions.  In the spring of 2006, Chris quit his job to focus on being a daddy and the two started hanging out a bit more.  Later that summer, they had an idea...  They felt they still had something to offer artistically and had worked too hard when they were younger to just let it all go without a fight.  As they approached 40, they decided to give it one more shot.  Todd had started a wedding video business and Chris suggested he put his slick video equipment to better use.  They began tossing ideas around and eventually came up the story for "Drawing With Chalk."

They were a bit naive thinking they could write, produce, direct, act, cook, drive, put people up, write the music, etc. for $8,000, their original budget.  Okay, so it cost a bit more than that but they did stick to their original goal, to have the film completed by the time they each turned 40.  Principal photography wrapped about two weeks before Chris' birthday and the picture was edited days before Todd's.

Over the past two years, Todd and Chris worked harder and more passionately than they ever had.  They somehow managed to raise their children during the day, work waiter jobs at night and work on this project until the wee hours of the morning, only to get up the next day and do it again.