Village Keeper (2024)
Jean is the provider and (over)protector of her two teen children, Tamika and Tristin, and begrudgingly lives with her mother in a crowded Lawrence Heights apartment complex. Despite the kids learning to become more self-sufficient, Jean’s vision is too clouded by the past to see that they're growing. She is haunted by violence in both their past and their present, and must help her children cope. Expertly using sound and flashbacks to construct a layered and full portrait of this woman's life, Chapman reveals the trials and tribulations that women in Jean’s family carry with them.
- Date of release
- 2024-09-07
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Karen Chapman
Casting
- Oluniké Adeliyi — Beverly-Jean
- Maxine Simpson — Grandma
- Zahra Bentham — Tamika
- Micah Mensah-Jatoe — Tristin
- Oyin Oladejo — Bola
- d'bi.young anitafrika — Dr. Anitafrika
- Ethan Burnett — Javion
- Shiloh O’Reilly — Shane
- Noah Zulfikar — MK
- Ricardo Betancourt — Terrence
- L.A. Sweeney — Younger Brenda
- Mark Sparks — Germaine
Interesting facts
Village Keeper is a Canadian drama film directed by Karen Chapman, and released in 2024. The film stars Oluniké Adeliyi as Jean, a Black Canadian widow living in the Lawrence Heights community of Toronto, where she tries to protect her children Tamika and Tristin from neighbourhood violence.
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