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• The movie is a short film that runs 13 minutes long.
• Rose has no lines in the short film.
• Director Jamie Babbit was a script supervisor on David Fincher's The Game. While working on The Game, she discussed her idea for a short film based on a fairy tale with Fincher. He was interested in the project, and gave Babbit about 6,000 feet of 35 mm film. His editor gave her free use of an Avid editing machine. The star of The Game, Michael Douglas, wrote to Paramount and asked them to let Babbit access to their costume department. As a result she was able to make Sleeping Beauties for about $10,000.
• The soundtrack features "Pity Rock", a song by San Francisco-based musician Madigan Shive.
• Premiered at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival and went on to play at over thirty film festivals including the Los Angeles Film Festival and the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.
• The film features on Girls on Film, a DVD compilation of short films released by Power Up.
• In 1999, Sleeping Beauties won the C4TX award for best short film from British television station Channel 4.
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