Winner of the Audience Award for Best Narrative Film at the 2020 Mardi Gras Film Festival, ELLIE & ABBIE (& ELLIE’S DEAD AUNT) is a heartfelt and hilarious queer teen rom com about school captain Ellie (Sophie Hawkshaw) who has a serious crush on her classmate Abbie (Zoe Terakes).
When Ellie accidentally spills the beans to her mum (Marta Dusseldorp) and outs herself in the process, things start to get complicated, and a little bit spooky. Enter her deceased aunt Tara (Julia Billington), a lesbian activist from the ‘80s who returns from the dead to act as a kind of fairy godmother to Ellie,guiding her through the trials and tribulations of her first love.
ELLIE & ABBIE (& ELLIE’S DEAD AUNT) has opened in cinemas today. The film is screening at the Dendy Newtown, Randwick Ritz, Palace Central and Palace Byron Bay.
The pics are by Sydney Arts Guide photographer Ben Apfelbaum at the film’s Red Carpet Sydney premiere on Tuesday night.
Featured image: Monica Zanetti, Sophie Hawkshaw, Mahveen Shahraki.
