Very last yr, Isabel Sandoval turned the initial trans woman of color to display in levels of competition at the Venice International Movie Festival. She went on to get her film, Lingua Franca, picked up by Ava Duvernay’s Array company, and she’ll keep on to blaze a path on Netflix later on this thirty day period.
When Lingua Franca lastly screens below at the digital edition of the Vancouver Queer Movie Festival, in its Centrepiece Gala, Sandoval marks a milestone as the event’s initial trans woman to have penned, directed, and starred in her own motion picture.
But what