Actor-writer-director Abe Forsythe was only eighteen years old during the making of this movie. An article in 'The Sydney Morning Herald' declared he might be ''possibly the youngest director of a feature film in Australia - whose previous experience consisted essentially of shooting a few shorts and appearing in the odd TV show''.
The movie features Ned Kelly (Abe Forsythe) riding a miniature pony. In real life, the actor arrived at the red carpet at the Australian Logie Awards for television (known as the ''Logies'') riding a Shetland pony.
Australian actor-comedian-TV personality Shaun Micallef in November 2006 described the movie as "the funniest Australian film made in the last ten years."
Writer-actor-director Abe Forsythe said of the movie in an interview with Inside Film (IF): ''I finished 'Ned' in 2003 [when] it was released, but the actual birth of that movie to its release was incredibly quick. Part of that was due to the subject matter of that film and the genre it was, and [also] the age that I was. There was a lot about that experience that was really great and a lot about it that was exactly the opposite. I look back on that film... I was going to say [it was] my film school but I've learned a lot since then as well. It taught me a lot about the industry''.
Publicity for this picture featured a still of four members of the cast dressed in colonial garb and holding a one-sheet movie poster of rival picture 'Ned Kelly' (2003) which is burning in flames.