[3] The film was shot in the Los Angeles area in only 19 days starting in October 1997, with Emmy Award-winner Bruce L. Finn (My Indian Summer (1995), directed by Red-Horse) as cinematographer.

Kimberly Norris Guerrero (TNT's Geronimo) and Irene Bedard (Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee) were cast to play the other sisters, alongside Red-Horse.

[5] Los Angeles Times critic Kevin Thomas wrote that the film "has lots to say but proves so stirring that it sustains its didactic stretches.

They have no idea that the search for modest financing for their venture will lead to such a profound confrontation with their need to work out their identities as Native Americans.

Vickie is much like Helena Rubinstein was nearly a century ago when she started building a cosmetics empire from a face cream formula handed down to her in her native Poland.

It’s a movie with a message, a stereotype-smasher that leaves audiences with the unmistakable impression that Valerie Red-Horse, writer, producer, co-director, and lead actress, is someone to take notice of – and someone not to be trifled with".