All funding for this film was through charitable donations. Donations received from Panavision, Deluxe New York, Splice Here, Picture Factory, MNFX, Rotor Design, Skywalker Sound and many many others.
Art direction has won AIGA award for environmental and graphic design. Ana's Playground won the Best Screenplay award at the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival.
Ana's Playground is one story from an anthology of short stories about children living in war. Similar to Babel, Traffic, or The Wire, the feature length script follows a multi-plot storyline.
Crew members had to take cover one evening after filming ended when real gunshots were heard from across the street. The crew was not the target, and no one was hurt in the incident.