Noel Boyd

After being fired from his job at a grocer, George, gets a job as a stableboy at a local stud farm run by the Fleming family. He befriends the horse Hotspur who is a favourite to win the Melbourne Cup, and develops a strong whistle which is used to make the horse run fast.

Modern, bizarre version of Little Red Riding Hood. Precocious girl takes a TV set to her grandmother’s. After a strange meeting on the way and a stop at the DVD store, she decides to let her friend go in. Disquieting, with chillingly fine acting by the two girls.