After an early adulthood marked by backpacking trips, theater, and juggling, Rémi St-Michel abandoned his life as a vaudevillian vagabond to focus on filmmaking, directing several short films that have screened internationally, such as The Deer, Heartbomb, Zoé, and Little Brother, which premiered at the 53rd Critics' Week in Cannes. Toy Gun Bandit is his second feature film and by far his most personal work which he wrote, directed, and edited.