Monday, March 9, 2020 - 21:00
Lingua Franca
Screening and Q&A
Location & Time: BABYLON - 21:00
Tickets available online here
Event Information
Olivia, an undocumented Filipino transwoman, works as a caregiver to Olga, an elderly Russian woman, in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. When Olivia runs out of options to attain legal status in the US, she becomes romantically involved with Alex, Olga’s adult grandson, in the pursuit of a marriage-based green card.
Sensual and provocative, “Lingua Franca” is critically acclaimed filmmaker Isabel Sandoval’s third narrative feature. Novelistic yet intimate, “Lingua Franca” is an unflinchingly candid chronicle of a disempowered woman’s political and sexual awakening.
Isabel Sandoval is a New York-based filmmaker whom The Museum of Modern Art–citing her “muted, serene aesthetic”–has recognized as a “rarity among the young generation of Filipino filmmakers”.
She has produced, written and directed three full-length features, including SEÑORITA (2011), which premiered in competition at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland and was nominated for Best Picture by the Young Critics Circle of the Philippines. SEÑORITA also won the Emerging Director Award at the 2012 Asian-American International Film Festival.
Her third feature, Lingua Franca, an immigration drama set in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, stars Eamon Farren, Lev Gorn and Lynn Cohen. It has received support from IFP, SFFILM, Frameline, the New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME), New York Foundation for the Arts and the Tribeca Film Institute.
After the screening, Isabel Sandoval will join us for a Q&A via Skype.