ECHO was created for the 2013 Action Film Challenge. The required elements for the challenge were:
Character: Jack - (Jack's backstory: Army-veteran, Served in the Middle-East. Hates terrorists.)
Prop: a photograph of a person.
Situation: The Lights go out
Line of Dialogue: "Heaven help us"
Line of Dialogue: "It's time for new leadership"
Marks the 20th time that Donald E. Reynolds and Amy Lyn Howell have both been producers on a short film and the 25th time their names have both appeared in the same film.
The 4th time that Michael Rodriguez has worked on an RnD Entertainment film project.
Echo stands for "E" in the military alphabet.
Echo played at the 2013 Movieville International Film Festival on September 20th, 2013, where it was up for awards.