You died. You’re dead. Welcome to Heaven. NEXT!

Everything is just fine until Will shows up at MILO 55160′s desk, and pulls out a yo-yo. This isn’t in the rule book. Milo; played by Patrick McKenna (The Red Green Show); finds out more about the nature of his job, and that this isn’t the Heaven that he thought it was.

Milo finds out that this isn’t actually Heaven, but only a bureaucratic exercise in keeping the dead calm, lulled into a DMV style coma. People who don’t miss life on Earth get recruited into the forces of the grey-clad bureaucrats. Somehow benefits and vacation time are important in the afterlife as well; bureaucrats are the same all over.

I saw this short film last year during the 2004 Vancouver International Film Festival, and since then it’s picked up a Leo award in Best Short Drama. It aired recently on the Canadian version of IFC, and it remains an excellent film.

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