Sorry For Your Cost
Director of Photography: Belen Garcia
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About the project
Teenage Ren is faced with an impossible choice: drop out of school and use her hard-earned tuition money to pay for a family funeral, or pursue her dreams and leave family behind. Sorry For Your Cost is the story of a family coming to terms with the predatory nature of the funeral industry, and ultimately finding solace in their own rituals.
Synopsis
Teenage Ren is a scrappy and determined theatre nerd with her whole life ahead of her. Her working class parents Anna and Randall have been saving for a decade for her to attend theatre school, and thanks to a brilliant rendition of Hamlet’s ‘to be or not to be’ monologue at her audition SHE GOT IN.
The day after her acceptance letter arrives, Anna dies in a car accident. Ren is riddled with guilt, convinced that her fight with her Mom right beforehand is the reason she died. The family can’t afford the $15K it costs to host a ‘proper’ funeral. Dying+, the eerily zen-inspired funeral home, shamelessly upsells the family before offering them a last resort: they can abandon Mom’s body at Dying+ to be cremated and placed in a mass grave.
Ren is faced with an impossible choice: drop out of school and use her hard-earned tuition money to pay for the funeral, or pursue her dreams and leave Mom behind. Sorry For Your Cost is the story of a family coming to terms with the predatory nature of the funeral industry, and ultimately finding solace in their own rituals.
Screenings and Festivals
Times listed in America/Vancouver timezone
| Date | Time | Location | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024, Oct 23 | 04:00PM | St.St. John's International Women's Film Festival | — | |
| 2024, Nov 24 | 03:30PM | ChilliwackChilliwack Independent Film Festival | — | |
| 2025, Mar 8 | 08:55PM | DisOrientDisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon | — |
Rosie Choo Pidcock
Rosie is a biracial Chinese Canadian writer and director who grew up on the northern shores of the Sto:lo (Fraser River) in South Vancouver, Canada. Her award-winning debut short film Esther & Sai, a portrait of the friendship between two immigrant nursing students in the 1970s, received distribution on Air Canada and is currently in series development with the support of the Canada Media Fund, Reelworld and the TIFF Series Accelerator. Rosie spent five years living between Beijing and Shanghai while also exploring her ancestral roots in Fujian Province. This experience not only sharpened her powers of observation, but also ignited a passion for cross-cultural storytelling. She counts Lulu Wang, Edward Yang and Hirokazu Kore-eda among her favourite directors for their pairing of cinematic visuals with emotional intimacy and the absurdity of everyday life. When she’s not making films, she is testing out a new move in her heels dance class, browsing a local thrift store or scouring the shelves at the nearest public library.