Airdate: Psychics in the Suburbs

The fourth instalment of the Opening Shot initiative, with documentaries from Australia’s next generation of documentary filmmakers, begins on ABC2 next week.

First up is Psychics in the Suburbs by Director Cassie Charlton and Producers Rebecca Barry & Madeleine Hetherton.

In Psychics in the Suburbs, we look at Australia’s psychic mediums. Business is booming and filmmaker Cassie Charlton wants to find out why. Florence King, recently crowned People’s Choice Australian Psychic of the Year, is in the middle of her biggest year yet, and spending time with Florence and her clients, gives Cassie front row seats for how the psychics business really works. Following both public performances and private sessions, we meet a range of Australians anxious to contact their deceased loved ones, trying to come to terms with their grief.

Psychics in the Suburbs explores who we turn to when the answers seem bigger than the questions themselves.

9:30pm Wednesday November 16 on ABC2.