Fuddlebe is On The Lot

In the interests of full disclosure I should point out that I have a bit of a history with this film. I first saw Fuddlebe when it played as part of the Toronto After Dark Film Festival. I'd programmed the features but hadn't seen most of the shorts beforehand so it came as a surprise to me in the best possible way and was my favorite of a very strong class of shorts. I've since been bowling with director John Reed and enough alcohol was involved in the evening to have colored my memory of it more than a little.

But enough of that ...

Fuddlebe is a darkly comic, very absurd, story about an elderly undertaker in a small town who realizes that the best way to keep his business going is to create new clients for himself. It's also a romance. And it's got production design work that would make Tim Burton drool. It has also just been submitted to new reality show On The Lot and you can find it streaming there in its entirety.

Watch Fuddlebe here! (Embedded Flash)