Perfectly Imperfect

G’Day! Please let me introduce myself.
Much like the children in ’The Goonies’, I found life in low-income suburbia boring, and I sought escape in any, and all films I could watch on TV, as we could only afford to visit the cinema twice during my childhood. Once was to see Bambi at the drive-in. Years later, as a love-struck teenage girl, and explaining to my mother that I’d die if I didn’t get to see Robbie Benson’s latest film, she took me to see, ‘Ice Castles’, whereupon we were late and missed the beginning of the film. The cinema attendant must have noticed me hyper-ventilating and let us watch the beginning of the next session, so I wouldn’t miss a second of Robbie.
As a young child, my mother tells of me sneaking behind the couch one night to watch whatever she was watching. Unfortunately, that night it was Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’ and I’ve been scarred ever since. Not as bad as her though – My Grandfather thought it would be a good idea to drag her along to the latest Hitchcock movie when she was a little girl. She couldn’t shower for years after popcorn and an afternoon viewing of ‘Psycho’.
Despite my impoverished beginnings I went on to earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Film and Television with the Queensland University of Technology and have produced several short films. I have written three screenplays so far that are very dear to my heart and aiming to find representation.
My first film, ‘Perfectly Imperfect’ is a romantic comedy about a struggling single mother who falls in love with a vain American movie star, and much like the film Dirty Dancing, where our expectations may be that it will be the devastatingly handsome man that screws everything up, the audience might be surprised when it is the wholesome protagonist, desperate not to lose him, who makes a fatal error in judgement, and risks their future in doing so.
My second screenplay, “The Clock of Destiny” is ‘JFK meets Back to the Future’ in that an Indigenous Australian woman finds herself back in time in Memphis, 1968, as a young, white woman. When she realises Martin Luther King is still alive, she enlists the help of a priest to try and save him. I feel that the story is timely and seeks to bring together black and white, Americans and Australians, and Catholic and Baptist. Heavily researched, it intertwines time travel with actual events from that day, including the belief, which King’s own children believe, that James Earl Ray was not the killer of their father.
I have completed an erotic thriller for my third film, entitled ‘A Hill of Beans’ while working for the Queensland Police Department and learning all about human depravities … and still sometimes daydreaming about Robbie Benson.