Producer Zachary Quinto worked with writer/actor Brian Jarvis at a coffee shop in Hollywood years before they collaborated on this project.
After making it's film festival premiere appearances, the short film received Internet attention from websites and blogs, particularly due to several videos released in the days prior to the web release of "Buddy 'n' Andy" showing producer/actor Zachary Quinto walking down the street with a giant slab of meat and a butcher. These videos were linked to from over 50 blogging sites from all over the world, and received over 160,000 hits and counting.
This short film screened at several international film festivals before it's platform web release on YouTube and over a large swath of websites and fan sites for actor Zachary Quinto.
In less than a month, in received over 20,000 hits on YouTube and counting, with the ancillary videos connected to the project having reached a total of over 200,000 hits.