Shot entirely on location, over the course of five days in July 2009.
Writer/director Louis Mansfield named the character "Jerome Emiliani" after Saint Jerome Emiliani, the patron saint of abandoned people/orphans.
"Elizabeth" is the first name writer/director Louis Mansfield's mother and "Elaine" is her middle name.
The original cut of the film clocked in at over almost three hours.
Over eleven hours of footage was shot over the course of the five day shoot.