While using a lavatory on campus at the University of Michigan, Jamie Schenk, producer, director and writer of Urban Scrawls became intrigued by the writings on the wall. So much so, she was inspired to create a documentary about bathroom graffiti. Her belief in the project encouraged others to join her crusade in answering the perpetual question, "who would write/draw something like that in the bathroom?"

Schenk was joined by producer, Sarah Wagner Cantu, a freelancer in the film and video industry for nearly a decade and cinematographer Kim C. Simms, of "Where the Buffalo Roam" and "Last Big Attraction"

The three women combined their talents, resources and favors to complete a ten-day shoot in three major metropolitan cities in the Midwest. For weeks, the trio traversed between Chicago, Detroit and Minneapolis. They scouted out locations in bars, restaurants and discovered some sites, literally, by accident. Filming any documentary is never easy, imagine the set up for Urban Scrawls. Conditions, to say the least, were not always the cleanest or easily accessible for a crew of ten plus equipment. But they never had to stand in line.