LINGUA FRANCA - Filmmaker/Actress Isabel Sandoval & Cinematographer Isaac Banks in person
LINGUA FRANCA
Tuesday, July 7 at 7:30pm
In Person: Filmmaker/Actress Isabel Sandoval & Cinematographer Isaac Banks
$18 Public | $11 Members
With her third feature, writer/director/actress Isabel Sandoval dazzles both behind and in front of the camera. This heartfelt and semi-autobiographical film marks her emergence as an exciting new cinematic force. In this powerful romantic drama, Sandoval stars as Olivia, an undocumented trans woman from the Philippines, who supports herself and her family back home by working as a caretaker in Brooklyn for an elderly Russian Jewish woman named Olga (an exceptional Lynn Cohen, best known as Magda from Sex and the City, in one of her final performances). Olivia’s frequent and at times overwhelming fear of deportation escalates dramatically when the man she has been paying for a green card gets cold feet; but her life takes an unexpected turn when a romantic connection starts to blossom with Olga’s black sheep grandson Alex (The Witcher’s Eamon Farren). They may seem doomed for disappointment but Sandoval’s film presents their courtship in a gently expressive and sensual manner even as issues around identity, civil rights and immigration threaten her very existence. The film world premiered at Giornate degli Autori/Venice Days and was the first Filipino film in main-competition at BFI London in its 63-year history. Lingua Franca was also an official selection of the 2020 SXSW Film Festival. (USA, 2019, 89 mins, English, Cebuano, Tagalog, and Russian with English subtitles | Dir. Isabel Sandoval)
Tuesday, July 7 at 7:30pm
In Person: Filmmaker/Actress Isabel Sandoval & Cinematographer Isaac Banks
$18 Public | $11 Members
With her third feature, writer/director/actress Isabel Sandoval dazzles both behind and in front of the camera. This heartfelt and semi-autobiographical film marks her emergence as an exciting new cinematic force. In this powerful romantic drama, Sandoval stars as Olivia, an undocumented trans woman from the Philippines, who supports herself and her family back home by working as a caretaker in Brooklyn for an elderly Russian Jewish woman named Olga (an exceptional Lynn Cohen, best known as Magda from Sex and the City, in one of her final performances). Olivia’s frequent and at times overwhelming fear of deportation escalates dramatically when the man she has been paying for a green card gets cold feet; but her life takes an unexpected turn when a romantic connection starts to blossom with Olga’s black sheep grandson Alex (The Witcher’s Eamon Farren). They may seem doomed for disappointment but Sandoval’s film presents their courtship in a gently expressive and sensual manner even as issues around identity, civil rights and immigration threaten her very existence. The film world premiered at Giornate degli Autori/Venice Days and was the first Filipino film in main-competition at BFI London in its 63-year history. Lingua Franca was also an official selection of the 2020 SXSW Film Festival. (USA, 2019, 89 mins, English, Cebuano, Tagalog, and Russian with English subtitles | Dir. Isabel Sandoval)
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