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Meet Isabel Sandoval, Writer & Director of film "Lingua Franca"

October 6, 2020, 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location Online - Zoom
SponsorCoordinator: Roberta FriedmanCostThis event is FREEPosted InFilm Forum at Montclair State
seriesFilms and Filmmakers
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Isabel Sandoval is a writer and director, known for Apparition (2012), Lingua Franca (2019) and Señorita (2011). She is a New York-based Filipina filmmaker. Her feature directorial debut, “Señorita,” premiered in competition at the 2011 Locarno Film Festival, and won the Emerging Director Award at the 2012 Asian-American International Film Festival in New York. Her award-winning second film, “Apparition,” screened at the 2012 Busan International Film Festival and later played at the Museum of Modern Art. With her third feature, “Lingua Franca,” Sandoval is the first transwoman of color to direct and headline a film competing at Venice.

Film can be viewed on Netflix.

* Screenings of the film are left to the individual, a Q & A forum with the guest(s) will be the event taking place.

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