Claudia O'Doherty

By day, bright-eyed, kind-hearted Maddie is a dishwasher at Gourmaybe, a trendy Los Angeles food content creation company, and at night makes scrumptious vegetarian dishes, captured in videos by her devoted husband Jake. When one of the videos goes viral and she is thrust into the spotlight, the pressure heralds the inopportune return of a long-dormant struggle with an eating disorder.

Live It Up is a feature documentary celebrating Mental as Anything, the art-school band whose irreverent humour, visual art and clever pop songs made them one of Australia's most distinctive cultural forces. Following the release of Nips Are Getting Bigger in 1979, the Mentals rose quickly from inner-city Sydney pubs to national fame, becoming masters at capturing Australian suburban life with warmth, wit and playfulness. While success came fast, they never treated it with reverence. Funny, warm and unexpectedly moving, Live It Up explores how Mental as Anything navigated fame, longevity and the pressures of the music industry while holding fast to their humour and creative spirit - revealing why their music continues to resonate today.

A driving instructor must use her other-worldly gifts to save a lonely man’s daughter from a rock star looking to use her for Satanic purposes.