Director Sean D. Gaston, a media educator who previously spent fifteen years in the movie industry, taught a "Holocaust through Film" course with history teacher and Holocaust scholar Jennifer Goss at Fleetwood Area High School [REF].
At the start of the 2010-2011 school year, Gaston and Goss began writing the script for the film with English teacher Zachary Houp,[REF] truncating and reorganizing the story into an accessible documentary narrative.