All makeup on this film was done by Lily Grayson; except for Baal's, which was done by Lori Ann Potts.
From initial concept of the plot to the first day of filming was less than 2 months. The script was completed in 3 weeks, written around locations and props that the author had access to. It was filmed nights and weekends from the end of January till mid April.
The story borrows heavily from Faust and the legend of Robert Johnson; Baal tuning the fiddle is a direct reference to the devil tuning Robert Johnsons guitar at a crossroads near Dockery Plantation in the Mississippi Delta
The knife that Baal carried is of unknown origins, bought at a market in Burkina Faso experts believe it to be a snapped sabre from an early European invader that a Taureg craftsman made into a dagger.
The original edit of the film was over 2 hours. 4 editors took different approaches, cutting it from a linear story to the final 90 minute disrupted narrative.