The scenes in the Texas School Book Depository were shot on the sixth floor of a warehouse in Pittsburgh - the same number of floors from where Oswald shot Kennedy.
Producer Troy Martin appears in the background during the diner scene as a patron.
The hard drive with finished visual effect shots died a week before the film was due. Several scenes worth of material were lost, prompting the production to add two more VFX artists to try and make up for lost time.
The original inception for this short grew out of Troy Martin and Steve Ranier being shown the real Zapruder film in a college history course. They began brain-storming ideas centering around conspiracy theories, and eventually time travel.
Ian Lewis drew inspiration for the film's time travel rules from the Back to the Future trilogy, and Rian Johnson's Looper. Lewis also loved the methodical details of the assassination as depicted in the climactic court room scene of Oliver Stone's JFK, and wanted to replicate that same level of detail for the short.