The script originally started as a social commentary on gender and race featuring a cactus as the main character. The story then went through various rewrites at one point having seven different writers.
Shot in three days.
The Assistant role of Guillermo was originally a non-speaking part. The Assistant Director stood in for an audition and ended up winning the part. The writers started expanding his character to the point that there was concern that he was becoming too central to the story instead of Lola.