SYNOPSIS
FOR LEMONPEEL
In 1993, HANNAH (9) picks up her father’s home video camera, and her life changes forever. Where she points her camera offers a window into her constantly-curious, developing mind. At first, the lens is on her best friend and neighbour, the outspoken, troubled BRONWYN (9). Also starring: Hannah’s cat PICKY-PICKY, her doting mother OLIVIA, and the woodland across the golf course where her father took his own life.
As a teenager, Hannah has growing dreams of becoming a filmmaker, and finds confidence in herself through more developed cameras and short films. Bronwyn emerges not only as her muse, but also her unrequited love interest, until Hannah goes to university and falls in love with another girl.
Over the following fifteen years, as Hannah and Bronwyn’s lives push and pull together, a fast-paced, heartfelt story of evolving friendship is told through Hannah’s lenses, culminating in a cancer diagnosis and sudden loss that bring their now-disparate lives together once more at the age of thirty-six.
LEMONPEEL is a twenty-eight year odyssey about love, death, and friendship, told through the eye of a camera held by a little girl, a teenager, and finally a woman.