Tell us about the opening night film, your film, "The Life We Leave." I mean, what's the story?

Yeah.

So "The Life We Leave," um, follows entrepreneur Michael Truman.

He's kind of your classic, uh, finance guy.

Um, and he hears about an opportunity in, um, the funeral industry to turn humans into soil as, as their, as their last act, and he sees a business opportunity there.

Um, but as he starts to open his, his company, he, he, you know, he understands the science, he gets through all of that stuff.

Um, and as he starts to open his company, he then comes face to face with grief and grieving people.

So I mean, is it a, an environmental film kind of talking just about the, you know, the toxic substances we're putting into corpses and then putting them in these hardwood boxes and, you know, not going anywhere for maybe thousands of years?

What were your first impressions about what he was trying to do and just the idea of spinning up, like, a large-scale human composting business?

I mean, just, like, saying that, it's intriguing.

It's kind of like an earworm.

Like, "Huh, wonder where this is gonna go." [laughs] Um, and I...

Backing up a little bit, the experience when my mom died with the funeral industry was very transactional.

It was very much like, "Here's a box of your mom's ashes.

Would you like to buy a keychain?" And I was...

Um, has the funeral industry been resistant to human composting because it is a new alternative to existing business models? What, what has the reception been like?