The Keeper

A rugged, windswept bush-clad island in the Cook Strait, New Zealand, 1900. Joseph is a young lighthouse keeper struggling to wrench a life for his pregnant wife and young boy in the harsh environment. They have run out of conventional fuel for...
New Zealand Production
Short 2013 Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama 15.00 minutes
Keeper still
A colonial haunting of birds and isolation
2013: Valladolid

Directors

Dylan Pharazyn

Producers

Claire Kelly

Screenplay Writers

Paul Stanley Ward

Cast

Sam Snedden
Joseph
Taren Cunningham
Ava
Tai Berdinner Blades
Rebecca
Rufus Holmes
Walter

Crew

Germain McMicking | Director of Photography
Peter Sciberras | Editor
Andrew Chaplin | Editor
Guy Treadgold | Production Designer
Maxwell Scott | Music

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