Everything Grows in Eden

Everything Grows In Eden is an independent feature film that was made for just $9,000 in North East Victoria, a product of countless hours of volunteer time from passionate locals and exciting young talent from Melbourne.

Be the first people to see this film on the big screen by purchasing a ticket for the World Premiere screening and stay afterwards for a Q&A session with the director and cast where you can ask about what it took to make this indie film on a shoestring budget in regional Victoria.

Logline: A young woman promises to take her suicidal best friend to a mental health retreat but they are drawn to a rural commune where old wounds threaten to surface.

Synopsis: Lily is a fish out of water in inner-city Melbourne and is struggling to find her identity as
a person in a place so antithetical to her alternative upbringing. She is best friends with
Shane, a chronically aspirational poet, but his apathy and depression weigh on her constantly and the wild, impulsive nature of Astrid, Shane’s other friend, is a barrier to her attempts to help his wellbeing.

After Shane tries to take his own life, and thoughts of homesickness and loneliness plague her mind, Lily suggests that he visit an alternative mental health retreat near her hometown in order to give himself a hard reset from his Melbourne life. Astrid invites herself along, and with Shane under her spell, Lily becomes desperate to keep the truth about her past from slipping into the wrong hands.

Website: www.everythinggrowsmovie.com

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