Greenkeeping

Greenkeeping is a 1992 Australian film directed by David Caesar.

Greenkeeping
Directed byDavid Caesar
Written byDavid Caesar
StarringMark Little
Lisa Hensley
Release date
1992
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
BudgetA$1 million[1]
Box officeA$17,100 (Australia)[2]

Production

Caesar had originally wanted to make his feature debut with another script he had written, Prime Mover. However, it was expensive to produce, so he decided to make the cheaper Greenkeeping instead after having a successful reading of the script at the Harold Park Hotel.[1]

Caesar contrasted Greenkeeping with Prime Mover, which was about a truck driver:

With Greenkeeping, I tried to do something about a character who was trying to go for a far less masculine lifestyle, a character who was literally doing the best he could within a domestic world; about trying to make his relationship, a very difficult relationship, with his wife work; about trying to do a job that he wasn't very good at as best he could; about trying to deal with problems like that. I think it's important to tell more stories like that. So it's about a guy who's doing the best he can. And I'm interested in telling stories like that, but on different levels.[3]

The film was funded by the Australian Film Commission.[1]

References
  1. Peter Galvin, "David Caesar's Greenkeeping", Cinema Papers, January 1992 p20-26
  2. "Australian Films at the Australian Box Office", Film Victoria Archived 9 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine accessed 12 November 2012
  3. "Interview with David Caesar", Signet, 4 April 1997 Archived 22 February 2013 at Archive.today accessed 18 November 2012


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