Claustrophobia

6 People. 3 Minutes. 1 Survivor.

Executive Producers: Gareth Q Barrett, Chris Wilson, Leslie Marx.
Supervising Producer: Meg Rickards.
Producer, Writer, Director, D.O.P, Editor, & Sound Editor: Gareth Q Barrett.
Art Director: Mpaki Molapo.
Lighting Technician: Rick Crosier.
Camera Operator: Andrea Pienaar.
Sound Recordists & Boom Operator: Nicole Lorenz.
Graphic Design: Chris Wilson.
Set Construction: Gareth Q Barrett, Andrea Pienaar & Mpaki Molapo.
Stills Photographer: Alexandra Mears.
Music: The Music Bakery.
Cast: Lika Van Den Bergh, Mbulelo Grootboom, Chris Wilson, Greg Carew, Peter Heaney , Robyn Grimbeek (Robyn Olivia).

Current Status: Festivals. Screening on YouTube.

A 3 minute horror which takes its inspiration from "reality" television shows.

Six people become trapped in an elevator and the lights suddenly go out. When they come back on someone's dead. Who did it? Who's next? Will they survive if the lights go out again?

Screened at: Shorts Around Sydney (2005), EyeScream IV (2005), Trasharama A-Go-Go (2005). It has been selected at 3 out of 5 of the festivals entered.

Comments: "Ten little Indians on speed!" - "A fun park ride gone very very wrong" - David Williams, Aussie Short Films.

"Freaky! I hated lifts before, and now even more so - thanks!" - Shorts Around Syndey Finals Judge.

"...ultimately effective... Hee hee hee!" - Tabula Rasa (David Carroll and Kyla Ward).

 “The perfect B-Movie“ - Gregg Watt – Award Winning Independant South African filmmaker

Interesting Facts:
Robyn Olivia recently featured in "The Triangle" (as Marie) a sci-fi mini-series about the Bermuda triangle phenomenon by Bryan Singer (director of "The Usual Suspects") and Dean Devlin (producer of "Star Gate", "Godzilla" and "Independence Day").

Peter Heaney and Robyn Olivia are now married and have a son.

Lika Van Den Bergh recently appeared in "Primevil" alongside Dominic Purcell ("Prison Break"), Orlando Jones ("Evolution") and Jurgen Prochnow ("Das Boot"). She is also a regular cast member of the South African TV Show "Known Gods" (broadcast on M-Net) playing Francie Jansen.

Greg Carew also recently appeared in "The Triangle" and the mini-series "Supernova" as Bone.

Chris Wilson (the Bruce Campbell of extras) made numerous background appearances in "Ring of the Nibelungs" (aka "Curse of the Ring" AUS).