Melbourne Love Story
8 x 30 minute returnable series
ROMANTIC DRAMEDY
When Samara Dempsey was nineteen, her and her friend Jayde traveled to Australia for the summer. On New Year’s Eve, she shared a kiss with a Melbourne girl named Evelyn in one of the most intimate moments of her life. Little did she know that Jayde, an aspiring photographer, took a photo of the kiss, which then won a major art prize and went viral online.
Ten years later, ‘Finally Free’ is cultural touchstone for many queer millennials and Samara struggles with the dubious honour of being a queer icon given she never really became comfortable with her own sexuality. Now an actor, Samara is unlucky in love. As her thirty birthday approaches, Jayde decides they should return to Australia and find the Evelyn from the photo. But it’s not picture perfect when they learn about the negative impact the photograph has had on Evelyn’s life.
This is a unique story of love, culture and identity in the deep melting pot of Melbourne, Australia.