Donadio and Kumarapuram were strangers who met incidentally online. Kumarapuram saw the YouTube short "Women of Wall Street" by Donadio and sent a message congratulating her. Donadio replied back, and the chat continued- which later led both to consider a possibility of doing a movie together, while sitting in their home countries.
Across The Ocean was shot simultaneously in two countries - Cochin, India and Los Angeles, USA. Two crews worked simultaneously under Donadio and Kumarapuram to shoot the parallel stories. They coordinated their look, tone, visual etc by daily swapping screenshots, clips and production notes via mail.
Across The Ocean team has used more than 15 web-based services and apps to create this movie. Starting from YouTube, Facebook Messenger and Gmail, the list includes Skype, Whatsapp, Twitter, Instagram, Kickstarter, Wishberry, MailChimp, Celtx, HootSuite, Wordpress, WeTransfer, FileMail, DropBox, Vimeo, FilmFreeWay and much more.
The G-mail conversation chain between Donadio and Kumarapuram alone comes to about more than 1200 conversations, starting from 2015 February till 2019 May, from the moment they started planning the movie till they completed the movie's post production phase.
The movie was crowdfunded successfully in two crowdfunding platforms- Kickstarter to fund the US half of the production and Wishberry to fund the Indian half of the production.