EXCLUSIVE: US-based Filipino filmmaker Isabel Sandoval is returning to the Philippines to shoot her fourth feature, Moonglow, starring Arjo Atayde (Trigger, BuyBust). Sandoval, who is known for her ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with filmmaker Isabel Sandoval, who wrote, directed and starred in the new film Lingua Franca, about Filipinx and trans... How Trump's Presidency Helped Shape Isabel Sandoval's ...

“Lingua Franca” filmmaker Isabel Sandoval has signed with CAA. In 2019, Sandoval made history as the first trans woman of color to direct and star in a film screening in competition at the Venice Film ...

Isabel Sandoval, the Hollywood-based Filipino filmmaker behind the critically acclaimed “Lingua Franca,” is putting the finishing touches on her latest feature “Moonglow,” a romantic noir set against ...

“Lingua Franca” opens with a phone call from across the ocean: A distant voice speaks plaintively in Tagalog over austere shots of a bleak Brighton Beach, a groggy woman awoken by her mother’s nagging ...

The struggles of an undocumented immigrant who is also a trans woman in the Brighton Beach area of New York are given a subtle, delicate and ultimately powerful treatment in “Lingua Franca,” by ...

The Story of Lingua Franca, Isabel Sandoval’s Deeply Personal Indie RomanceThe writer-director-star explains how her third feature, about an undocumented Filipina transgender woman falling in uneasy ...

On July 18, the Women’s Steering Committee (WSC) meeting featured the discussion, An Indie Feature Case Study with Director Isabel Sandoval. In a conversation moderated by Director/WSC Activities and ...

What is it like to move through life under the Trump administration as a trans woman and a woman of color who's in the U.S. illegally? That is the question filmmaker Isabel Sandoval explores in her ...