 When producing the film, she chose young director Garin Nugroho, whom she perceived to be highly talented; she also took the leading role.During production, she made a mistake that required the reshooting of all footage.In an attempt to cut expenses, she had saved all cans of exposed film to send to the developing lab at once; the lab then notified her that a technical fault with the camera had rendered all of it unusable and that the problem could have been detected earlier had she sent each can as it was filmed.