First British feature to be registered as Dogme film.
There was no script - all the dialogue in the film was improvised. The only guides were basic
Contrary to some press, there was an entirely structured screenplay, with dialogue written in a prose format style under the writer/director who wanted to achieve spontaneous dialogue in the rehearsal process.
Most of the young extras were members of a Youth Theatre group - apart from Tamzin Dunstone, the lead roles were taken by relatively well-known actors.
Won the Jury prize at the San Francisco film festival (2005) i.e. Levi's(r) First Feature Award
The mother of the family talks to Tasha about TV, announcing the TV program Big Brother, which Rula Lenski, who plays the Refugee mother, featured in the Celebrity version.