Paint Cans

Paint Cans is a 1994 Canadian comedy film written, produced and directed by Paul Donovan and based on his book of the same name. A satire of Canadian film and television production, the film stars Chas Lawther as Wick Burns, a bureaucrat in the Film Finance Office of Canada who is trying to help secure funding for Paint Cans, the directorial debut of his film school classmate Vittorio Russo, while simultaneously trying to navigate a new romantic relationship with Arundel Merton, a journalist he met at the Cannes Film Festival.