Housekeeping

Directed By Jen Harrington

After Lucy takes a job as a housekeeper, she discovers her employer has a dark side as her past begins to reappear.

  • ABOUT
  • BIO
Lucy Castillo, a young med student, has just given up a prized summer internship to bail out her troubled younger brother, Sal... again. He needs cash fast, and after being unable to find a job, Lucy reluctantly accepts the too-good-to-be-true position as a housekeeper offered to her through a friend of a friend. For only three weeks work, she will be paid enough to get Sal out of trouble. Things start to take a disturbing turn, however, as the job reveals itself to be anything but normal. Her never-seen employer seems to have a dark side, and Lucy's own haunted past begins to reappear, tormenting her. As the job spirals out of control and Sal's life hangs in the balance, Lucy's grip on reality disappears.
Writer/Director JENNIFER HARRINGTON is a DGA filmmaker who has spent more than a decade creating features, shorts, television, music videos, and web content. She most recently directed the upcoming feature film IRL for Squid Farm Productions. Her short films have screened at festivals internationally and on IFC. She wrote and directed the feature film HOUSEKEEPING released by Lionsgate Entertainment and After Dark Films in 2015. As an editor, she cut GAGA: FIVE FOOT TWO premiering at TIFF '17, the Emmy-nominated feature documentary BANKSY DOES NEW YORK for HBO, and numerous other narrative and documentary features (THE SOURCE FAMILY - SXSW '12, BOGALUSA CHARM - Slamdance '17,, DARK MOUNTAIN - Austin Film Fest '13, etc). She received her BFA in film production from UCLA and her MFA in cinema-television from USC, receiving the Frank Glicksman Award, the Steve Lawrence and Edyie Gorme Award, and the James Bridges Directing Scholarship while in attendance. She likes punk rock, whiskey, and the desert. Not necessarily in that order.