Curiosidades

The Vietnamese children cast in the film have been or are currently being supported by The Christina Noble Children's foundation.

Deirdre O'Kane shadowed Christina Noble at her foundation in Vietnam for two weeks before filming.

The idea of the film came from Deirdre O'Kane who hosted events for The Christina Noble Foundation as a stand up comedian for several years. Deirdre became friends with Christina and her husband Stephen Bradley began to write the script the later directed the film.

Christina Noble was given the script before filming and only requested two lines to be changed as she believed they wouldn't be something she would say.

Towards the beginning of the film, the slum scenes were filmed at the old tenement blocks on Barrow Island, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria UK. The shipyard scenes were partly filmed down at the old Cavendish Dock and "The Boat" as it was known as locally was moored at the supermarket car park also in Barrow-in-Furness until fairly recently. The boat used to be used as a nite spot until it was damaged in a fire.