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Searching 4 Sandeep

Poppy Stockell 2007

Categories: World Showcase

Run time: 56 min. | Australia | Language: English

Love in the digital age is complex: immediate, yet distant, emotionally close, yet physically far. When Sydney-sider Poppy Stockell set out to "research" her light-hearted doc about the online lesbian dating scene, she had no idea that it would launch her on a journey that would change her life forever. Frustrated, lonely and single, 28-year-old Stockell finds more than just research on the Internet. To her surprise and delight she forges a deep online connection with an English woman, Sandeep Virdi. Poppy sends Sandeep a camera and we watch as their virtual long-distance crush blossoms into a very real physical relationship. But they face obstacles greater than the vast oceans that separate them. Sandeep is Sikh, lives at home with her conservative family and, at 31, is still in the closet about her sexuality. Through raw, incredibly frank footage, Searching 4 Sandeep follows Poppy and Sandeep's tumultuous relationship across two years and three continents.
-Sarah Whitehouse

Co-presented with Inside Out Toronto Lesbian & Gay Film and Video Festival

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Screenings

time		venue	calendar	tickets
1:15 PM Sat, Apr 19	plays with... Corona (The Crown), La \| Amanda Micheli, Isabel Vega 2007	Isabel Bader
11:30 AM Mon, Apr 21	plays with... Corona (The Crown), La \| Amanda Micheli, Isabel Vega 2007	Isabel Bader

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Cast & Crew

director	Poppy Stockell

producer	Cecilia Ritchie
composer	Abigail Hatherly
cinematographer	Poppy Stockell
editor	Anna Craney

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1 2 3 4 5 funkaoshi 9:18 AM		La Carona was followed by Searching 4 Sandeep, an Australian film written, directed, and starring Poppy Stockell. The film follows Poppy as she begins a long distance relationship with a closeted British Punjabi girl Sandeep. The movie starts with Poppy waiting for Sandeep for their first meeting in Bangkok. It then jumps back 4 months to give you the story that lead up this meeting, and then moves on from there. As the movie began, I thought to myself, “what a lame choice to follow up La Carona.” It starts off quite light-hearted and cheesy. The movie is certainly funny throughout, but as the relationship becomes more and more serious things become a lot more interesting and heavy. The film touches on a lot of subjects, but perhaps most interesting is the relationship between Sandeep and her family as she comes out to them. Sandeep was given a camera early into the film, and some of the stuff she filmed is quite intense. Searching 4 Sandeep turned out to be a very good film.