Ellie & Abbie (& Ellie’s Dead Aunt) (2020)

School captain Ellie is seriously crushing on her rebellious classmate Abbie. Determined to ask her first love to the year 12 formal, Ellie devises a plan to go public with the invitation but before she can go through with it, her dead aunt Tara reappears from beyond the grave. Believing she’s been brought back from the dead to be Ellie’s fairy godmother, Tara dishes out unwanted dating advice based on her life as an out lesbian in the ’80s.

• aunt niece relationship
• civil rights movement
• coming of age
• coming out
• detention
• family secrets
• high school crush
• lgbt
• lgbt teen
• mother daughter relationship
• motivational video
• prom
• self-discovery
• woman director