Trivia

Only a few of the archive footage clips shown in the series are real: most were reenacted with actors and the material processed in post-production to give it a VHS look.

Since the story is supposed to be based on a student documentary shot in late 2000s, all the new material was either shot on MiniDV or in High Definition and later processed to look Standard Video definition. The actual series was released online in SD format instead of HD.

The student documentary on which the series is based really exists, even if it was a mockumentary. Shot in 2006, the original movie was a film project that was screened once in 2007, right after completion. The movie was a student project for the documentary class and was not supposed to be distributed. Since the young filmmakers were lucky enough to convince prominent filmmakers and actors to act for them as themselves (among them, director Alfonso Cuarón, Domenico Procacci, both interviewed during the Venice Film Festival, actress Heather Langenkamp and journalist Piera Detassis), they decided it deserved at least a non-commercial distribution. Ten years later, working between projects, producer Francesco Roder resumed the project, re-wrote the original script, shot additional material, re-edited the original version and release it as a web series.

Characters and short films are named after other mockumentaries: those include Diana Lagarto (a reference to the main character of Series 7: The Contenders (2001)), "F for Fear" (Orson Welles's F for Fake (1973)), Shanda Tomaso and Francesca Ciardi (character and actress from Cannibal Holocaust (1980)), Priscilla Fontanelli's Daniela Myrick (named after The Blair Witch Project (1999)'s director Daniel Myrick).

Some names and titles suggest that everything is a mock, like Maria Galiano-Sperandio's character Vera (Vera means 'real' in Italian), fake actress 'Ann Tru Reely', fake movie title 'My Unreal Life', Margarita Rodriguez Vazquez's character Lea Falsetti ('Falso' means Fake in Italian).