The Second Room was the first of two films that Cinematographer Lloyd Freidus shot for Director Bryan W. Simon, the second was the 2009 film I’m No Dummy.

The Second Room Cinematographer Lloyd Freidus was a favorite of Robert Altman, having shot two of his films, Precious Blood and Snakes in the Water Cooler.

The Second Room screenwriter Ron Winterstein is a second cousin to renowned filmmaker Stan Brakhage.

The Second Room was chosen for the Discovery Series at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, and was one of only five short films chosen for the AFI-Los Angeles International Film Festival in 1995. It received the Gold Award, for Dramatic Adaptation Short Subject, at the Charleston International Film Festival (Worldfest Charleston).

In Scenes 38/39, where Stanley watches himself from outside of Moira’s window, Best Boy Electrician, Steven E. Kolar, doubled Richard Neil.

The budget was too small too afford a rain machine, so several crewmembers squirted water from two garden hoses into the air to simulate the rain in Scenes 38, 39, 40.

Rimini Italian Restaurant, the location for the scene where Stanley “has lunch” with Moria, closed several months after the shoot when the owner was caught buying $18,000.00 worth of cocaine from undercover officers.

Short on extras, Producer Fred Kaplan drafted his parents, Vivienne and Hyman. They’re the older couple that gets on the bus with Moira.

Unable to afford a dolly to shoot the interior of Moria’s house, Cinematographer Lloyd Freidus held the camera while riding in a wheel chair that a dolly grip pulled.

One of the composers, Mo Jen of Strange Fruit, has gone on to compose for such films and TV shows as Strange Days (1995) and Easy as Pie (2002).