GRACIE OTTO
There is no part of filmmaking that Gracie Otto doesn’t love. “Being on set is my happy place,” she says, but she also craves the “solitude and calmness of being in the edit” and tears up when she watches the trucks leave at wrap. “It reminds me of being in my gumboots when I was young, running around looking for my dad on set,” Otto reflects – her father Barry is the legendary star of – “or watching [my sister] Miranda filming and looking over at the director and being like, ‘I want to do what reboot – and, now, feature films. Her debut , about a Dolly Parton obsessive, premieres at the Sydney Film Festival this month.
