TOP AGENT was shot on VHS during the scholastic year between September 1988 and June 1989 by the then 16- and 17-year old Thomas Lundy while a pupil at the erstwhile Belgian school Athénée Royal de Rösrath (listed on wikipedia in French) in Germany, which existed between 1950 and 2003 servicing the dependents of Belgian armed forces and French-speaking African diplomats stationed in Germany. Part of TOP AGENT was shot at the historic building Haus Venauen in Rösrath (also listed on wikipedia in German), which dates back to the year 1555: over the centuries it housed German nobility and NAZI officials from 1938 to 1945. It was recently renovated for private residences. Other interior scenes were shot in neighboring Hoffnungsthal (meaning "Hope Valley" in German.) The nemesis was played by Lundy's classmate Maurice Nsabimana, son of General Déogratias Nsabimana, tragically assassinated before the Rwandan genocide in 1994; Maurice Nsabimana went on to become a U.S. citizen and works for the World Bank in Washington D.C. Lundy's sister Alexis has a brief role and later appeared in Lundy's short film NUDE NOT, broadcast in France, Monaco, Mauritius and Switzerland in 2000/2001 on Canal+. Lundy's father Neil also assisted; he was then anchorman for the weekly half-hour PBS television show EUROPEAN JOURNAL, which was based out of Cologne at Deutsche Welle, the German public broadcasting service. TOP AGENT received its only public screening on 29 January 2000 at Trinity Square Video in Toronto, an artist-run center for production and exhibition of video-based work.