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Award-winning Lingua Franca director Isabel Sandoval is set to release her next feature film, Tropical Gothic, after officially signing with CAA (Creative Artists Agency) on Friday, February 19.
The Filipina filmmaker revealed on Twitter the teaser poster for her upcoming feature film, featuring the art of Henri Rousseau.
According to a Variety report, Tropical Gothic will be a colonial, surrealist drama set in 16th century Philippines about the “haunting of a Spanish conquistador.” It will bear themes similar to Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo and Jane Campion’s The Piano. Tropical Gothic is a short story collection written by Filipino novelist Nick Joaquin.
No cast or release date has been confirmed yet.
Isabel Sandoval’s Lingua Franca debuted at the Venice Film Festival in August 2019, much to critical acclaim. The film won the top prize Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2020 Bentonville Film Festival and was nominated for the 2021 Independent Spirit Awards. The film is currently streaming on Netflix.
Lingua Franca, where Isabel also stars in, is about Olivia, a Filipina trans woman and undocumented immigrant working as a caregiver in Brooklyn. She tries to secure a green card from an American man she is paying, but in the process, ends up falling in love with a slaughterhouse worker, Alex. – Rappler.com
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