Bus Rider
2008, 34min, Mockumentary
Description: Bus Rider was a joint project between Maya Hum and myself, which was conceptualized and produced over winter to summer span of 2008. The final film website is now permanently housed at bus-rider.ah-on.ca.
Synopsis: Bus Rider chronicles two unsuccessful film makers who, as a last attempt at success, decide to make a film on a strange profession they discovered in the newspaper classifieds. The occupation is that of being a Bus Rider. Through meeting current professional Bus Riders, a professor studying this career path, and a former executive of the corporation behind bus riding, the two film makers set into motion a perilous chain of events, fundamentally changing the lives of the bus riders, and themselves.
