Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival 2008

In this sweet and endearing documentary, 28-year-old Australian filmmaker Poppy Stockell, single and lonely in Sydney, decides to take a light-hearted look at the lesbian Internet-dating scene. To her delight, she finds a spark with 31-yearold Sandeep Virdi. Trouble is, Sandeep is inaccessible in all kinds of complicated ways: she lives with her conservative Sikh parents in the British Midlands—and they don’t know she’s a lesbian.

Poppy is candid with Sandeep from the beginning about her desire to make a movie about their relationship. She sends Sandeep a camcorder, and we watch as their virtual relationship blooms into the real thing across two years and three continents. Through raw, incredibly frank footage, the result is a deeply personal, first-person story about love and bridging distances—geographic, cultural, religious, emotional—in our modern digital age.

co-presented by Tasveer and Trikone NW