It was too offensive and it turned out to be the wrong season. It takes place during the dry season but the shoot was in the rainy season, so things got all messed up. But I had visited the village location so many times and heard so many campfire stories that it was then I just decided to change the script and eventually I decided to do this story which is a true story. You hear it all the time. Everybody knows someone who goes to the city and gets killed in a car or motorcycle accident.
Most Thai people can relate to it.
Out of my own pocket. Then I got a grant that paid for half of it. Then I actually made it all back because I won prizes at festivals and it actually paid for itself. I won a couple thousand bucks at the International Short Film Festival in NYC, a thousand dollars at the Hampton Film Festival and at the Chicago International Film Festival a Gold Hugo prize. So everything combined ended up pretty much paying off the budget.