Brazil's Official Submission to the Best Foreign Language Film Category of the 80th Annual Academy Awards. The film was one of the nine films that made it to the January's short list but failed to secure the nomination.
Director Cao Hamburger spent half a year finding the two leads. There were about 1,000 auditions for the part of Mauro and 200 for Hanna.
Daniela Piepszyk had no prior experience with soccer, and the story needed a girl who played it. She went to a sports club to get soccer training.
The building where Mauro end up living is not located in the actual Bom Retiro where the story takes place. It was an abandoned building located
in Campinas, countryside of São Paulo, but it had similar characteristics and surroundings as typical from Bom Retiro neighborhood.