The Savage Garden… where the beautiful are dangerous and the dangerous are beautiful.Director : Peter Andrikidis
Producer : Andrew Arbuthnot, LaLa Pictures
Writer John Lonie
Written with the assistance of Screen Australia
Based on John Lonie’s popular novella Friend of Dorothy
The Savage Garden is the story of the sort of friendship you need on the brink of adulthood, with that adult who isn't your parent, but friend and mentor who, your parents believe, steals you away from them. They're right. But someone has to.
She worships his purity and beauty... he is in love with desire.
A French-Australian co-production
Drama, 120 minutes
Producer : Andrew Arbuthnot, LaLa Pictures
Writers : Laurent Auclair & Andrew Arbuthnot
The Right Choice is a drama targeted at the 26+ age group, especially a female audience. It is a choice-driven plot similar to The Hours and Last Days of Chez Nous and will be filmed in a dramatic style similar to that of Almodovar. Sam Paris, a single mother with a 17-year-old son, finds out she's fallen pregnant to her new lover, a young French backpacker. She decides to terminate the pregnancy but Sam's mother is a well-known Pro Life Movement leader and no clinic will accept Sam for the procedure. Sam is forced to tell her lover and believes he supports her choice; whatever it is, however he leads her on with a string of lies and broken promises and a court case until Sam's choice becomes a race against time to terminate the pregnancy.
Sam will have to fight for her right, and for her choice.
