september, 2020
Event Details
Free, no ticket required Isabel Sandoval is scheduled to be present for a virtual conversation and interactive
Event Details
- Free, no ticket required
Isabel Sandoval is scheduled to be present for a virtual conversation and interactive Q&A moderated by Indiana University Associate Professor and Asian American Studies Program Director Ellen Wu.
Join us for a virtual conversation and interactive Q&A with writer/director Isabel Sandoval. Be sure to download the free online meeting platform Zoom to your computer or phone to be able to access this virtual event and sign up to join the September 18 Zoom event via this link.
Series: Isabel Sandoval: Uncompromising Vision, IU Cinema Virtual Screening Room, Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Series
About Isabel Sandoval
Isabel Sandoval is a New York-based Filipina filmmaker and MacDowell Fellow in film. The Museum of Modern Art has cited her as a “rarity among the young generation of Filipino filmmakers” for her “muted, serene aesthetic.” She is the first transgender director to compete at the Venice and BFI London film festivals with the New York-set trans immigrant drama Lingua Franca. Her noir-inflected debut feature Señorita had its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival. This was followed by the Marcos-era nun drama Apparition, considered a contemporary Philippine film classic, which won awards at the Deauville and Hawaii film festivals after premiering in Busan.
Her three features—all female-centric dramas of interiority and displacement—have screened at prestigious international film festivals, including Thessaloniki, Stockholm, Vancouver, AFI Fest, and Palm Springs. Her work has been supported by the Tribeca Film Institute, New York Film Academy, MoMA, Independent Filmmaker Project, and Frameline. In November 2019, she received the SFFILM Westridge Foundation screenwriting grant for a new project, Baptism.
Isabel Sandoval’s latest feature film Lingua Franca is being distributed by ARRAY, Ava DuVernay’s film distribution company, and will premiere on Netflix in the United States on August 26, 2020.
Time
(Friday) 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm