Trivia

The initial script written by Humberto Castro was originally intended to be a 15-minute short film for an acting course he was taking at Latin American Talent Studio in El Paso, Texas. When Bryan G. Thompson was hired to be the new acting instructor at the studio, Castro presented the script to him for advice. Thompson read it and immediately fell in love with the story. Both decided to work on the script together and turned it into a 30-minute short film before eventually turning it into a 90-minute feature film.

The entire feature film was shot in 11 days.

Humberto Castro, a former undocumented immigrant himself, wanted the film to focus on the DREAM Act (acronym for Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors); which is an American legislative proposal that would grant conditional and permanent residency to immigrants who meet certain qualifications and entered the U.S. as minors.

First feature film for Bryan G. Thompson and Humberto Castro; which they wrote, produced and directed together.

At first, this film was shot as a 30-minute short film in order to get sponsors for the feature film. However, when Bryan G. Thompson and Humberto Castro saw the footage, they were extremely disappointed with the overall quality of the scenes. One day after playing basketball, Thompson and Castro sat in an SUV for 4 hours and re-wrote most of the short script right there on the spot and eventually came up with a new storyline for the feature film. Less than a month later, they finished the 90-minute feature-length script after several revisions. They decided to count their loses and "scrapped" all the scenes from the short film and hired Christopher Jones to shoot and edit the entire feature film. In the end, the film had the "organic" and "independent" quality they were looking for.