Participant Jim Mitsos was a fan of documentary filmmaker David Bradbury's films Chile: Hasta Cuando? (1986) and Nicaragua: No pasaran (1984).
This documentary is dedicated to "the spirit of the Cuban people".
Lead participant Jim Mitsos paid for documentary filmmaker David Bradbury's expenses to travel to Cuba.
Documentary filmmaker David Bradbury was declined permission to film in the Cuban children's hospital in Havana that participant Jim Mitsos had donated $500,000.
During the making of this film documentary filmmaker David Bradbury delivered the ashes of the then recently deceased Australian socialist, animator and filmmaker Harry Reade who had wanted his remains to be scattered in Havana's Rosenberg Memorial Park in Cuba.