Connect to someone else's Mac to add Apple tv content?

My mother-in-law lives far away and one thing we set up to share what her grand kids do is to put media on her Apple tv. So we record performances and turn them into mp3s, make home movies in iMovie, and email her photos. Initially we set up all of this stuff, along with her DVDs and CDs that we ripped for her on an external drive which we linked to her iTunes. She is computer illiterate though, so trying to add new content has been a nightmare. If I send her photos through email or home movies on a thumb drive she should just be able to drag and drop onto the external drive and then into iTunes. But it never works right, she keeps messing up a step, usually disconnecting her hard drive in the process.
So here is what I need. Can I connect over the Internet my MacBook pro running Lion to her MacBook running Snow Leopard so I can drag and drop these files from my laptop to hers?

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