sum total

What does an Indian lesbian do when her family puts pressure on her to get married? What does her
matrimonial advertisement look like? sum total answers these questions through a short poetic film
that addresses issues of identity, self-representation, and hetronormativity.

Duration: 5 min.
Credits: Director/Producer: Sonali Gulati, Editor: Nishit Saran
Production Format: Video
Screening Format: DVD/ VHS (NTSC) BETA SP (NTSC)


review

· Review by Lorrie Fritchy

upcoming screenings

India Habitat Centre
New Delhi
Sunday July 6th, 2008
Gulmohar Hall, 6:45pm

exhibitions

· San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (NAATA)
· Cardiff Screen Festival, Wales, UK
· Frameline-San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, CA
· Cineffable Film Festival, Paris, France
· Capital Queer Film Festival, Canberra, Australia
· Reel Affirmations, Washington, DC
· ArtWallah 2005, 6th Annual Arts Festival of the South Asian Diaspora, Hollywood, CA
· South Asian Femme, Holocene, Portland, OR
· Women and Power, Sedgwick Cultural Center, Philadelphia, PA
· Three:Two:One--Self Portrait Video Installation Art Market Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA
· Cinema Salon - Sponsored by WHYY, Philadelphia, PA
· Friends of Siddhartha Film Festival, New Delhi, India
· Tasveer-Independent South Asian Film Festival, Seattle, WA
· Q-Filmistan, Trikone’s South Asian Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
· Women in the Directors Chair Film Festival, Chicago, IL
· Northampton Independent Film Festival, Northampton, MA
· Making Scenes Film Festival, Ottawa, Canada
· Wingspan Film Festival, Tucson, AZ
· Women of Color Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
· Queer Screen’s Mardi Gras Film Festival, Sydney, Australia
· CineMental, Experimental Film Series

Brattle Street Theater, Cambridge, MA
9:30pm, 18th June 2008

 plus screenings at festivals in North America in Toronto, Montreal, New York, Philadelphia , Boston,
 Seattle, Portland, Atlanta, Hartford, San Antonio, Milwaukee, Akron-Ohio
 plus international film festival screenings in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Italy, Germany, France, UK, Australia

 
 conference screenings/ panel presentations

· South Asian Students Alliance Annual Conference, University of Texas, Austin, TX
· “Crossing Borders: Global Movements, Local Actions”, SASSY: South Asian Solidarity Seminar for Youth,
  Northeastern University School of Law, Boston, MA
· Desh Pardesh:  South Asian Arts, Culture, Politics, & Activism Conference, Toronto, Canada           
· “Sexualities, Masculinities & Culture”, Melbourne, Australia
· “Our Culture, Our Writing, Our Lives”, OutWrite Conference Film & Video Series, Boston, MA

 

· Sonali Gulati · VCU School of the Arts · Department of Photography & Film·
· P.O.Box 843088 · Richmond, VA-23284-3088· USA·sonalifilm@yahoo.com·