Having won acclaim in the UK at the prestigious London Barbican Film Festival, Sandra Sciberras (Caterpillar Wish) and Kate Whitbread’s Surviving Georgia will now be in Australian cinemas from October 13 and opening at the Tweed Coast’s own Cinemax at Kingscliff.
Starring Shane Jacobson, Holly Valance, Pia Miranda, Caroline O’Connor and Spencer McLaren, Surviving Georgia is a heart warming family drama about two sisters (Pia Miranda and Holly Valance) who strive to find their place in the world.
Surviving Georgia: When we meet sisters Heidi (Pia Miranda) and Rose (Holly Valance) they are making their way through life in quiet, unassuming ways.
Heidi works at the local glass factory where she remains obstinately single, seemingly oblivious to the amorous yearnings of her shy supervisor (Spencer McLaren), whilst sister and single mother Rose moves from boarding house to boarding house towing her son, Albie.
They both appear to have come to terms with the pivotal event of their adolescence… being abandoned 12 years ago by their flirtatious, flamboyant and impulsive mother Georgia (Caroline O’Connor).
Until one day, identical pink letters arrive at the girls’ addresses supposedly calling them to a meeting with her.
The reality, however, would appear to be that their mother has passed away, leaving them a Milk Bar in their home town in the hills as an inheritance, if they agree to return home and live together for six months.
With no better offer in their lives, Heidi and Rose agree to move back to the country town where they grew up, and set about fixing up the old Milk Bar, but it’s not long until they discover that not everything is what it seems.
