Juliana Palermo, tapped to star in the movie since she is from Davao where part of the film was shot, backed-out from the production due to financial problem.
Bembol Roco dropped the project despite filming portions of the movie. Financial problem in production also forced him to quit the project.
The production has to re-shot the movie after the original main cast backed-out from the movie due to financial problem.
Racing against time, the movie's post production was completed just hours before its premiere last November 23 at the Cinema One Original film festival.
Director Sanchez spent months immersing in a Mandaya community in Maragusan, Compostela Valley researching about the balyan or a Mandaya tribal priestess whose practices is slowly disappearing in the advent of modernity.