Garett Bradley met Sibil Rich in 2016 while working on her short film Alone, a New York Times Op-Doc. She intended to make a short documentary about Rich, but when shooting wrapped, Rich gave Bradley a bag of mini-DV tapes containing some 100 hours of home videos she had recorded over the previous 18 years. At that point, Bradley transitioned the short into a feature.
Shot on a Sony FS7 camera and finished in black and white.
At the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, Garrett Bradley won the Directing Award in the U.S. Documentary competition, becoming the first African American woman to win in the that category.
Amazon Studios has acquired the film in a deal worth $5 million.