The title comes from a famous press article on Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997) called "Prison of Self-Consciousness: an Essay on Evangelion", written by Manabu Tsuribe, which deals with common ideas, such as denial to adversity and awareness of a simulated reality.
Almost all crew personnel performed small roles as extras due to budgetary reasons.
Released under a Creative Commons License, being the first known short film in Colombia to do so.
The jail where Alejandro is kept lock up was actually the first floor of a house about to be remodeled. Also, the bed where he wakes up was actually a door taken down by accident in location when the crew was doing scouting.
In one of the takes for the scene where Alejandro discovers Valentina's lifeless body, a neighbor of the location, completely unaware of the shooting, showed up armed with a machete to avenge what he thought was a murder.