BITTER & TWISTED

In the living room of a suburban home, Liam Lombard lays dying
and his family watches helpless. There was no warning, no signs
and no time for goodbyes. Three years later the lives of the four people
who loved him most are changed forever. His father Jordan is caught
in a vicious cycle of depressed overeating, while the mother Penelope
discovers she started menopause. Ben, their surviving son, doesn’t
know if he’s gay or not, but he is attracted by Indigo, his dead brother’s
former lover, who is never quite the same since Liam’s death.

“Bitter & Twisted is a movie about identity – or essentially how our
past shapes who we are today. The first draft was finished when I was
twenty years old. It manifested from a desire to depict the Australia
I’ve always known, far from the stereotype of beer drinking, football
loving louts and rather more grounded in the oppressive isolation
that can exist in some of the smaller suburbs of a large city such
as Sydney. A guidebook to discovering your inner quirk if you will.”