A happily married couple, Samantha and Paul, have recently forged a new life in a home they've purchased, and are just settling in. While hunting around curiously in their overgrown backyard, Paul stumbles upon an ancient, musty shed. Seemingly unattended for years, mysterious things start to happen the moment Paul cracks the padlock.

For one confusing and harrowing Sunday, Paul opens a can of worms that expose the many potential darker sides to his relationship with Samantha. Just when he thinks he may have come full circle, his worst fears start to come true...

VIEW THE SHED TRAILERS:

View the original teaser trailer:

View the extended On The Lot mega-extended trailer/short:

You can also view the entire 30-minute film on IMDB (they require you to log on or register as the film has some violence and strong language)

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:

Mike Crowhurst, Director, on The Shed: This is essentially my debut short film if you don't count the little "practice" ones you do along the way to becoming a filmmaker. The Shed is a 30 minute drama which I deliberately set in my own house and used minimal cast in order to keep costs down. I also really wanted to focus on the small details of the story using a space and subject matter I was very familiar with. The look and atmosphere of the film was very important to me, as well as likeable and versatile characters and actors. I've always been fascinated with the subject of time-travel, time-displacement and other such topics, but I don't like films that get so absorbed in the idea that they drown out the story with effects. I wanted this to be a story about the lives of these two people that have an inexplicable phenomenon happen along to complicate things, but not the other way around.

About the Director: I like a great deal of films but am very specific about the ones that I love. I wouldn't exactly call myself a film aficionado whereby I devour any film that comes along; rather, I pick and choose along fairly specific lines and these are quite likely the films I will always shoot. I also enjoy working along the blurred lines of typical genres and aim to test those boundaries with future works.

My background is in graphics and web development and design, but I have been illustrating, writing and visualising in some creative form or another since I was quite young. I'm still tossed up about which road to travel: directing, editing or shooting as I love all three (and tend to do all of them on each project I work on!). I was born in Canada and have lived in Vancouver most of my life before moving to Australia with my wife in 2004.

MOVIE STILLS

Click below to view a slideshow of ungraded stills from the footage

PRODUCTION PHOTOS

Click here to view a slideshow of selected photos from The Shed shoot
(courtesy Janna Hill)

THE SHED SCREENINGS

(May 2008) THE SHED has been chosen to appear in the 3rd annual Bridge Fest Film Festival, one of the largest international independent Film Fesitvals, bringing people, countries and continents together through the art of filmmaking. Films will be screened in Vancouver (Canada), Belgrade (Serbia and Montenegro), Trebinje (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Kathmandu (Nepal).

(April 2008) We finally had our cast and crew screening.

CREDITS:

CUNNING CROW PRODUCTIONS presents THE SHED
in association with RED EARTH FILM PRODUCTIONS PTY LTD
featuring RENAI CARUSO and ADAM FAWNS
music by CAMERON MACKAY and DAVID KLOKMAN  edited by MIKE CROWHURST   associate producer DAVE SCOTNEY   director of photography MARK BURKETT  art director FABIANNE RAMOS   executive producers MIKE & AISLING CROWHURST  A&F CUNNINGHAM   written, directed and produced by MIKE CROWHURST