As a tribute to the late actress Nicole DeHuff (whom the director worked with on her last film Unbeatable Harold (2006)), a large white flower container sits prominently on a table in Jessella's house.
The director lived on a working ranch in a farm worker's quarters for six months while making this film.
Amanda (Jhey Castles) and the Director met while working on another movie two years earlier. From then on, there could be no other Amanda; she had the role and didn't even know it.