Socratis Otto

On a trek through the harsh wilderness for the world’s rarest tree, a group of friends wind up on a journey through their own haunted pasts.

It's a long hot summer and teenager Charlie Boyd meets Maggie, the mysterious and alluring French woman who lives down the street. She's a professional and she specialises in pain. Giving it, exploring it, and sharing it, all for money. What starts out innocently however soon becomes more dangerous.

A boy, his best friend and three others, on a family vacation to see the world’s rarest tree, enter a chaotic nightmare as they get lost in the wild.

Carlotta is a biopic telemovie about extraordinary Les Girls headliner and transgender pioneer, Carlotta. This intimate and entertaining portrait underlines the strength and vivacity of Richard Byron as he broke out of childhood neglect and into Sydney's red-carpet society as Carlotta, the must-see act of the day. Carlotta's early forays into "the next step" are covered and show how she became one of the first people in Australia to have full gender realignment surgery. As a woman, Carlotta fell in love with "Aussie bloke" Peter but, after ten years as a housewife in 1980s suburbia, her inability to have children ended in the couple's separation. Carlotta then returned to the stage and finally found a kind of peace with her mother, Evelyn. The telemovie features song and dance numbers and archival reconstruction of 60s-80s Sydney.