The Producers

Vic Sarin - Director

After beginning his career in Australia, Sarin emigrated to Canada and went on to become one of Canada's most celebrated Directors of Photography, receiving Genie, Gemini and Emmy nominations and awards. He is the recipient of the Kodak Lifetime Achievement Award for having created some of Canadian cinema's most moving and memorable images. Vic's work on feature films such as Margaret's Museum, Dancing in the Dark and On My Own earned him world renown as one of Canada's premier cinematographers.

Tina Pehme - Producer

Tina is a creative partner in Sepia Films. For the last two decades, she has developed projects and relationships internationally through her extensive work on US, Canadian and International co-productions. Tina has developed, consulted and produced for both film and TV in Canada, the US, India, the UK, China, South Africa, Ireland, Spain and Argentina. Alongside Kim Roberts, Tina has established the development company Honalee Productions and has begun to produce feature-length television programs.

Kim Roberts - Producer

Together with Tina, Kim has produced Sepia’s feature films The Games Maker (2014), a co-production for Disney starring Joseph Fiennes, Ed Asner and David Mazouz; In Their Skin (2012), a suspense thriller starring Selma Blair and James D'Arcy, and a number of others, as well as the feature documentaries The Boy From Geita (2014), Hue: A Matter Of Colour (2013), and And The Beat Goes On... (2009). Kim also executive produced the Canada/UK cult classic It’s All Gone Pete Tong (2004).

Making The Film

Keepers of the Magic is composed of a series of interviews with world-class cinematographers. Director Vic Sarin, who believes that cinematographers are responsible for the ‘magic’ of movies, spoke to a number of these often-overlooked filmmakers including Vittorio Storaro (The Last Emperor, Apocalypse Now), Roger Deakins (The Shawshank Redemption, The Big Lebowski) and Gordon Willis (The Godfather trilogy) in the making of his documentary.