The entire production was done in quarantine during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. For safety, none of the actors and filmmakers ever met in person. Each actor recorded their performances at different times in their own homes in front of blue or green screens that they had on hand. Quincy Ledbetter directed them over Zoom, having them act their performances at various eye-lines so he could have all options covered in post.
Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine and Zainab Jah also played husband and wife in the feature film, "Farewell Amor", for which Ntare won the award for Best Actor at the 2020 Durban International Film Festival.
The film credits eight different camera operators, one for each actor in the film. The parents of the child actors shot their performances on whatever smart phone they had on hand. Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine shot his performances completely on his own.
Dashiell Rob's digitally created sets were printed and sent to visual artists Revo Dubois and Ania Tamira, who then painted the sets on canvas. The paintings were sent to Quincy Ledbetter who took hi-resolution photos of the paintings and blended them with the digital renderings in PhotoShop.
Quincy Ledbetter, Yuki Maekawa-Ledbetter, Emily McCann Lesser, Dashiell Rob, Zainab Jah, Terrance Broughton, Jr., and background Painter, Revo Dubois all live and worked from their homes in New York. Ania Tamira, another background painter worked from Atlanta. Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine and Haley Webb worked from their homes in Los Angeles. Spencer Moss and Rusty Schwimmer worked from Chicago. Colt William Hager worked from the Outer Banks, North Carolina. Rotoscope animators Tejas Mahajan and Niraj Pandkar both worked from their homes in India.