The trailer has a definite retro feel to it, with Wexler taking inspiration from public service announcements of decades past.

"I was watching tons of '80s PSAs. Smoky the Bear type PSAs and after school special type stuff," Wexler tells Heat Vision. She enlisted novelist Ed Kurtz for the voiceover work and used music from punk musicians Wade MacNeil and Andrew Gordon Macpherson, who scored the film.

The trailer comes a day ahead of the film's premiere at SXSW in Austin, Texas, which marks the culmination of months of work for Wexler in editing.

"Directing is very interesting, because you have to be super-extroverted on set and in production, and then you go into a dark room for however many months and then you have to be a total introvert," she says with a laugh. "And then when you are showing the movie off, you have to go back into extrovert."

The Ranger premiere takes place Monday at 11:55 p.m. at Alamo Ritz 1 and it is expected to include Wexler and stars Chloe Levine, Jeremy Holm, Bubba Weiler, Jeremy Pope and Granit Lahu. Amanda Grace Benitez also stars in the film.

The pic's executive producers include Darryl Gariglio, Giles Daoust and Catherine Dumonceaux. Wexler produced with Andrew van den Houten, Larry Fessenden, Ashleigh Snead and Heather Buckley.