The visual style of sisters in laws enforces the fact of Cameroon being an under developed country through the mise en scene I the documentary. An example of this being the lawyers office having huge stacks of paper on her desk as well as her office in general looking cheap with the cleaners using branches to sweep dirt. This shows Cameroons poverty as the lawyer in the film is supposed to be a higher up in society yet cant afford cabinets for files and has an over all run down office. This overall gives the documentary a sympathetic tone showing Cameroon as venerable and unpleasant to live in strengthening the the themes of equality in the documentary.

Social context: Sisters in law is set in Kumba Cameroon. At the time the documentary was filmed Kumba was a town in poverty and had some controversial views on how women and children were treated. For example when married women were seen as the husbands property and not a separate human. also women and children were beaten after doing something wrong and this was seen as ok at the time. The fact that both the judge and the prosecutor are women would give hope to the population of Cameroon and the rest of the world as the views of how women and children are treated are starting to change

Sisters in law was produced by Florence Ayisi and Kim Longinotto and was funded by the organization Women made movies which is a charity that promotes film made by or featuring women The inspiration for the film came from Kumba Town in West Cameroon, where Ayisi grew up. Initially, the directors planned to focus on the local police force but shifted their attention to the judicial system, highlighting the work of two women, Vera Ngassa and Beatrice Ntuba

Social: The documentary is set in Cameroon, a country in central Africa which suffers from poverty and inequality in terms of gender due to being a highly religious place with 69.2 percent of the population are Christian, 20.9 percent Muslim meaning script traditional values are misused against women in the community.

Production: Florence Ayisi and Kim Longinotto where supported financially by the non profit company women make movie who aimed to teach women filmmaking supporting sisters in law to have a wider representation for women directors. Ayisi had the idea to make a documnetry in her home town Cameroon after a visit she had there seeing the mistreatment of women.