The film stars Shari Sebbens, Meyne Wyatt, Tessa Rose, Clarence Ryan, Toby Leonard Moore and Bella Heathcote.

He said about the short film that he intended it to illuminate the intergenerational trauma faced by Aboriginal Australians in particular mothers whose children were forcibly removed from them, creating the Stolen Generations.

[6] The Moogai was produced by Mitchell Stanley of No Coincidence Media, with Kristina Ceyton and Samantha Jennings, of Causeway Films.

[10][11] In his review for RogerEbert.com, Brian Tallerico suggested that "tightening the effects" would help the film, and hoping that it would be further refined before its theatrical release.

[14] Ali Alizadeh, a creative writing lecturer at Monash University, writing in The Conversation, praises Bell's talent, but felt that the film should have embraced more of the horror genre's "darker, more shocking aesthetics" rather than the greater focus on the thematic topics.