Out for Delivery's Cast & Director on Their Someone Seeking End-of-Life Care Film
6Short films have the challenge of creating a memorable impact in such a limited span of time, but writer-director Chelsea Christer's short, Out for Delivery, which screened at South by Southwest 2025, doesn't run into this issue with a strange and dark premise and unforgettable performances.
The dramedy is based on a morbid true story, as it centers around the strange and stressful final moments of someone seeking end-of-life care after a long battle against cancer, but the mail delivery system fails her. In the short film, Joanna (Deanna Rooney) lives in a world where modern technology allows the end-of-life medication to be shipped directly to her, but the systems in place to make this happen only offer dark comedic mishaps and even more anxiety. Things take a turn when she meets Mark (Martin Starr), and the short film continues to hit those notes of black comedy, bleak absurdity, and visceral melancholy, crafting a tonal tightrope that grips us right to when the credits roll.
Director, writer, and editor Christer, as well as actors Rooney and Starr, sat with Steve Weintraub at Collider's Media Studio in the Cinema Center at SXSW 2025. Christer talks about her experience creating a short, especially in the editing room where she was challenged to make a 10-minute version of the story. From the pressures of two-day shoots to the achievement of screenings at Sundance and SXSW, the cast and crew share how they got the film off the ground. They reminisce about previous PA jobs and suffering from injuries on the set of RuPaul's Drag Race, while Starr also teases Tulsa King Season 3 and a future remake of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle.
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