ELLIE & ABBIE (AND ELLIE'S DEAD AUNT)

By Monica ZANETTI

ARCADIA - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, AUSTRALIA

Comedy - Completed 2020

Determined to ask her first love Abbie to the year 12 formal, Ellie devises a plan to go public with the invitation but before she can go through with it, her dead aunt Tara reappears from beyond the grave, with lesbian dating advice from the 80s.

Festivals
& Awards

Mardi Gras Film Festival 2020
Audience Award
BFI Flare 2021
Hearts
    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Comedy, Romance, LGBT
    • Countries
    • AUSTRALIA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 84 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Monica ZANETTI
    • Writer(s)
    • Monica ZANETTI
    • Producer(s)
    • Mahveen SHAHRAKI (Cobbstar), Patrick JAMES (Cobbstar)
    • Synopsis
    • In this heartfelt lesbian rom-com, school captain Ellie is seriously crushing on her rebellious classmate Abbie. Determined to ask her first love to the year 12 formal, Ellie devises a plan to go public with the invitation but before she can go through with it, her dead aunt Tara reappears from beyond the grave. Believing she’s been brought back from the dead to be Ellie’s fairy godmother, Tara dishes out unwanted dating advice based on her life as an out lesbian in the 80s.