Buddymoon premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah on January 23, 2016[2] and received their Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature.

[5] In March 2016, worldwide distribution rights to the film were acquired by Gravitas Ventures and Orion Pictures.

After some prodding, David reluctantly accepts this idea, and the two men embark on a seven-day hike through the mountains of Oregon.

As they travel, David notices a series of parallels between his literal and metaphorical journey and the expedition of Lewis and Clark through these same Northwest woods, as well as the friendship between the two men.

Buddymoon was filmed almost entirely (except for a few remaining pick-up shots) for ten days in the summer of 2014 on location in Oregon, and the actors worked from a detailed outline rather than a full script.