Music written, arranged and produced along with sound mix by The Sound Room – lyrics in collaboration with Briar March, Kim Harrop & Nick Ward.

Director: Briar March Producer: Kim Harrop

A group of rebellious, creative Kiwi seniors give death the finger, one crazy coffin at a time.

Musical and documentary unite to introduce The Coffin Club, a truly unique community organisation bringing free-spirited seniors together to construct and personalise their own low-cost coffins. Based in small town New Zealand, with over 60 active members, this group of inspirational elderly meet once a week to rejoice in life while facing the realities of death.

This warm and humorous story enters a lively community of seniors who live life as if each breath was their last.

Some recent successes for the film

  • Coffin Club was Daily Short Pick on Film Shortage
  • Excerpts of the film were featured in an item on Kiwi Coffin Club on BBC World TV.
  • An article on the film was featured in El Pais, Spanish national daily newspaper
  • Show Me Shorts included Coffin Club in their online screening room
  • Age Concern are doing a special screening of CC at an event marking International Day of the Elderly, next Monday in Wellington
  • We’ve applied to the following festivals…
  • Our Vimeo page has hit 35k views!