PREVIEW: Ellie & Abbie (& Ellie’s Dead Aunt) (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Sophie Hawkshaw (Riz), Zoe Terakes (film debut), Julia Billington (All About E), Marta Dusseldorp (Burning Man), Rachel House (Hunt for the Wilderpeople), Bridie Connell (film debut), Madeleine Withington (film debut), Randall Hua (film debut), Melanie Bowers (film debut), Chiara Gizzi (film debut), Olga Markovic (The System), Patrick James (Air), Orya Golgowsky (film debut), Ed Wightman (Sequin in a Blue Room)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Monica Zanetti (film debut), director, writer; Patrick James (film debut) and Mahveen Shahraki.M (film debut), producers; David Chapman (God on My Side), composer; Calum Stewart (Le Champion), cinematographer; Nicole Thorn (film debut), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Teenager Ellie (Hawkshaw) is nervous to ask her classmate Abbie (Terakes) to the school’s upcoming formal. Things begin to get a bit more complicated when Ellie’s deceased aunt Tara (Billington) suddenly appears to her in ghost form, giving her niece advice whether she wants it or not…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

This Australian LGBTQ+ coming-of-age story, with a supernatural twist, is a sweet and heart-warming antidote to our current troublesome times.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 11TH JUNE 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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