The cast is largely comprised of non-actors.
Official submission of Mexico for the 'Best International Feature Film' category of the 93rd Academy Awards in 2021.
The script won the 2013 Bengala award, and was published in short story form. The next year the script was selected for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab won the Gabriel Figueroa Development Grant at Los Cabos Film Festival.
Cumbia rebajada is a music genre that began in Monterrey, Mexico when normal Colombian cumbia songs were played at a slower tempo. But now artists are making slowed songs that mimic the music but with normal sounding voices.