Chloe Bailey played the character of Little Lilly while Beyonce played the character at an older age. Beyonce would later sign Chloe and her sister Halle as a group, Chloe X Halle, to her record label Parkwood. Beyonce signed the duo before she remembered their theatrical connection.
The church pews and minister's podium in the movie were taken from St. Paul's United Methodist Church in Atlanta and moved into a church in Senoia Georgia (the white one with the turret used in the exterior scenes). The minister's office, kitchen and the rehearsal space that's not the choir loft where they perform was filmed in the Atlanta church. St. Paul's used the money for allowing filming in the church to add air conditioning to the sanctuary.
The film first aired on television on the cable movie network Showtime nearly two years after its release.