Voted the top U.S. film by audiences at the 2004 Seattle International Film Festival.
Screenings include: Tribeca Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, Salento International Film Festival (Salento, Italy), HBO New York International Latino Film Festival, Children's Film Festival (Cologne, Germany), Seoul International Youth Film Festival (Seoul, Korea), Hannover Children's Film Festival (Hannover, Germany), Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival and the Staten Island Film Festival.
Winner of the Audience Award at the Schlingel International Film Festival for Children in Chemnitz, Germany.
Selected for exclusive American Express and Citigroup screenings at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival in New York.
In a 5/20/2004 article in The Seattle Times, movie critic Moira Macdonald notes that the world premiere of this, then 19-year-old writer/director/producer Robert Burke's first feature film, was scheduled for 6/12/2004 at the Seattle International Film Festival, that the screenplay was a revision of a screenplay he had written at age 11 for a short film, and that it was shot in the summer of 2002 in the Seattle, Washington, area with an all-local cast. She also notes that Robert Burke appeared as a child actor in The Basket (1999) (in a principal role of Helmut Brink).