The film is based on some actual events that took place in the life of the director Felix Igori Ramos.
While filming the climax the director became so emotional describing the death of Miguel's father (due to the real life death of his own father) that he wept bitterly, something which Eric Urbiztondo (the actor playing Miguel) later acknowledged as a factor that helped his performance.
At the age of 29, Felix Igori Ramos decided to leave his well paying job as an accounting clerk to become a filmmaker, at the encouragement of Spike Lee whom he met one night on the campus of USC.