Isabel Sandoval

…is a New York-based filmmaker who has produced, written & directed three full-length features: Señorita (2011), Apparition (2012), & Lingua Franca, which premiered at the 2019 Venice International Film Festival…

 

 Señorita:

a cinematic celebration of intimacy that offers— what NY mag calls—

“portraits of transfeminine pleasure.”

 Apparition:

a period drama about “cloistered Filipino nuns during the Marcos regime,” Apparition was released in 2012, & shown at MoMA: part of its series honoring the brilliance of contemporary Philippine cinema

 Lingua Franca:

a gorgeous, intersectional consideration of an undocumented caregiver’s struggle with issues of citizenship, survival, civil rights, & love.

Lingua Franca was acquired & released by Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY & is now streaming on Netflix.

“Every image or sound is a vessel for emotion: rapture, despair, sensuousness, enchantment, a combination of these,” Isabel tells the Hennepin Review. “That makes cinema a kind of legerdemain: the art of sculpting such seemingly artificial elements to create a singular, genuine emotional experience in the viewer.”

Isabel Sandoval