One scene was shot at the famous Biltmore Hotel in the early 1980s when it was just an abandoned building.
The Space Refugee's home planet of Derejes is actually a tennis ball painted pink and hanging on a piece of fishing line.
Screened on June 5, 1982 during The 1982 Toronto Super 8 Film Festival in Canada.
Screened during the 1981 KET Film and Video Festival held on April 25, 1981 in Lexington, KY. "The Space Refugee" was one of the few entries of this festival to be broadcast state-wide on Kentucky Educational Television's "KET Film and Video Festival" hour-long broadcast on August 12, 1981.