"Traceur", English translation 'tracer', is the French name for a practitioner of parkour.
Tracers wrapped filming on August 1, 2013, and was released in March 2015. In an interview, Taylor Lautner confirms the movie took long to be released due to no initial studio attachment and the "perfectionist" nature of director Daniel Benmayor.
Jacob Sullivan wrote an earlier draft of the script.
A boy with no parents getting roped into a group of street kids who is looked after by an older man who makes them steal for him is very reminiscent of the novel "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens. Here, Cam is Oliver and Miller is Fagin.