Airdate: I’m Wanita

Music doco I’m Wanita, the story of ‘Australia’s Queen of Honky Tonk’, screens next week on ABC.

The special follows a renegade country music singer on a mission to record an album in the Mecca of country music – Nashville USA – and realise her lifelong dream of stardom, before it’s too late.

I’m Wanita is the story of a renegade country music singer from Tamworth, Australia, hell-bent on realising her childhood dreams of stardom. Self-crowned as ‘Australia’s Queen Of Honky Tonk’, Wanita is still waiting for the recognition she knows she deserves.

Wanita embarks on a quest to record an album in the country music Mecca of Nashville, but her inability to toe the line threatens to derail her plans – can she keep her date with destiny?

Production credit: Screen Australia and Australian Broadcasting Corporation present in association with Screen NSW a production by People Productions in association with Acme Film Company.

8:30pm Wednesday March 2 on ABC TV Plus (repeat 9.30pm Tuesday 8 March on ABC for International Women’s Day).