IT IS only a matter of days now before the latest efforts of shire film maker Davo Hardy, 26, hit the big screen — but only for a private audience, as the work is yet to be classified.
Called The Lives We Lead, the film tells the story of two young feuding sisters and the men they love.
The sisters' old expectations shape their day-to-day lives in adulthood.
"The story follows the entire arc of their lives, and we look at their legacy," Hardy, said.
The film's main settings are in Brighton-Le-Sands and Jannali.
Model and actor Sage Matchett, 10, who goes to St Catherine Laboure's Catholic Primary School at Gymea, plays the role of Edith Keegan, the younger sister.
Edith is plainer, more introverted and a well-read daughter to a single middle class father.
As an adult, portrayed by Georgina Neville, she becomes a talented novelist, but struggles from having lived in the shadow of her sister, their father's favourite.
Spoiled and narcissistic, Edith's sister Pamela, portrayed by Bridget Williams as a child and Sally Williams as an adult, does not achieve as much as her sibling.
The two women feud for years over who is more deserving of their father's approval.
"With the film not yet being classified by the Classifications Board, screening [during the next week or so] to the general public would be illegal," Hardy said.
"I am in the process of getting the film classified; I anticipate an M15+, before showing it at the theatre in the Hazelhurst Gallery, Gymea, in late August or early September."
The film runs just shy of two hours and Hardy himself funded it. A US film distribution company is taking his work for release in October.
"It is in consideration for a number of film festivals," Hardy said.
He wants to make the Sydney Film Festival and then become a full-time screen writer-director.
