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After life’s precarious scale tips her fortune back into poverty, Jean relocates her children with their grandmother to the community housing project where she grew up.
Synopsis
Village Keeper follows a family grappling with secrets that uphold domestic abuse and unresolved rage. After life’s precarious scale tips her fortune back into poverty, Jean relocates her children with their grandmother to the community housing project where she grew up.
Jean lives in constant fear of everything that could go wrong, going to great lengths to shelter her children, so when a spree of violence comes to her doorstep, she secretly cleans an abandoned crime scene, which unknowingly leads her on a path that exposes generational chains of silence, self-discovery and finally putting herself first.
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Born to a Guyanese family that fostered her creative instincts, award-winning artist Karen Chapman brings a versatile voice shaped by a strong foundation in documentary storytelling. Her work spans documentaries, narratives, animation, VR, and installation—always rooted in compassion, impact, and bold storytelling.
