FRESH RELEASE: Just Buried

Written and directed by Chaz Thorne, Just Buried is a Canadian macabre comedy about Oliver Whynacht (Jay Baruchel - Knocked Up, Tropic Thunder), who inherits a funeral home from his father whom he never knew too well. The only problem is nobody passed away in the town for almost a year and whoever dies is picked up by a rival home whose pushy owner even tries to buy out the struggling business. With the help of beautifful mortician Roberta (Rose Byrne - Briseis from Troy), bodies soon start appearing all over the county, bringing new bodies for the funeral home almost every week. How long can the couple keep up the game before finally uncovers their scheme or their relationship crumbles?

Just Buried is the first commercially released score of composer Darren Fung, who provides a quirky underscore for the macabre fun. Darren was kind enough to answer some questions on Just Buried, getting a foothold in the world of film scoring and how the music eventually got picked up by MovieScoreMedia.

First of all, could you tell me a bit about your musical background?

Well, like all good Chinese boys, I started playing piano when I was three years old. I composed my first orchestral piece of music when I was fifteen, through a project called the "Young Composers Project" with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. I think it was there where I learned a lot about orchestration, and also caught the composing bug. I had went to McGill in Montreal for my composition degree and a concentration in jazz piano, and I think for the most part had always wanted to do film music. I had a little bit of an artsy-fartsy stage (I'm too good for film music sort of attitude... it's too tonal..., artistically repugnant... LOL...) in my 3rd and 4th year of university, but I got back into it after school.