Over 30,000 video frames were hand painted in order to remove digital artifacts caused when green-screening mini-DV footage. The process took several weeks but resulted in pristine keys few are able to achieve with similar source formats.
It took over 240 hours to render the film from start to finish. In total, the film occupies over 1.4 terabytes of hard drive space.
Two weeks before a major festival screening, a computer glitch destroyed the entire rendered film before a screening copy could be made. The entire film was frantically reconstructed from back-ups and re-rendered barely in time for the screening.
Without a single penny spent in advertising, the film managed to rank second in per-screen Box Office for the weekend of 16-19 April 2004, grossing $6,982 on one screen at The Roxie Cinema in San Francisco.