Immigration and Transgender Issues Fuel Isabel Sandoval’s Drama ‘Lingua Franca’

SAN FRANCISCO -- Longtime benefactor of the arts and culture in San Francisco Ann Getty died Monday.

coronavirus pandemic, countries are continually being added and removed from the list of countries that are exempt from the government's 14-day quarantine policy.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorThose apocalyptic photos of San Francisco splashed across social media in recent days are just one measure of the impact California’s 2020 fire season is having.Another is the fact that the state is currently facing three of the four biggest fires in its recorded history. The August Complex, the SCU Complex fires and the LNU Complex fires are numbers 1,3 and 4 all-time — and still burning.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorIsabel Sandoval’s “Lingua Franca” is a visually gorgeous drama from the auteur filmmaker who also stars in the film, now streaming on Netflix.Sandoval plays Olivia, an undocumented Filipina trans woman who spends her days working as a caretaker for Olga (the late Lynn Cohen).

Ed Meza @edmezavarSwitzerland’s Cognito Films has re-teamed with German shingle Elemag Pictures on a human drama about a group of pit workers coming to terms with the closure of Germany’s last coal mine.“Once We Were Pitmen” accompanies five miners on a bittersweet journey against the backdrop of climate change, Germany’s energy transition away from fossil fuels and even gender identity.

Woke, which premieres Sept. 9, the road to "wokeness" for an ambitious cartoonist named Keef (Lamorne Morris) is paved in grimly humorous ways.

similar state guidelines issued in June.Also Read: Nearly Half of US Movie Theaters Will Be Open This Weekend Even Without New York, CaliforniaAccording to the state’s county status tracker, the counties that can reopen indoor theaters with these modifications include Alpine (minimal), Calaveras (substantial), Del Norte (moderate), El Dorado (substantial), Humboldt (moderate), Lake (substantial), Lassen (substantial), Mariposa (moderate), Modoc (minimal), Mono (moderate), Napa (substantial),

As a film that documents the plight of an undocumented Filipina transwoman living in the United States, Isabel Sandoval’s “Lingua Franca” embodies the fresh face of cinema in 2020. As the first year of a new decade circles around the corner, Sandoval stands with her arms out, ready to greet the oncoming culture shift with a quiet, politically minded drama that strives to speak out for the unheard and shine a light on marginalized artists seeking to gain a foothold in the industry.

Lingua Franca, her third feature film as writer-director, and the first that the trans Filipina filmmaker has shot in her homebase of New York City.

Long in the making sequels have been having a bit of a moment in Hollywood over the last handful of years. Properties long since thought dormant have come back to life, sometimes to great success.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerAdd the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants game scheduled for tonight to the list of major sports game postponed in protest of the Kenosha, Wisconsin shooting of Jacob Blake.The teams were scheduled for a game at Oracle Park in San Francisco that would have been televised by ESPN.

Peter White Television EditorCBS has reshuffled its early fall schedule with a mix of acquisitions, scripted series from other areas of the company and non-scripted programming as it deals with the ongoing impact of COVID-19.The broadcast network is adding Star Trek: Discovery, One Day At A Time and Spectrum’s Manhunt: Deadly Games as well as a documentary spin-off of FBI to the schedule in September and October.This comes as CBS hopes to roll out its previously announced schedule of scripted

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterLingua Franca marks many firsts for filmmaker Isabel Sandoval. Originally from the Philippines, the drama marks Sandoval’s first feature shot in the United States and it made history at the 2019 Venice International Film Festival Venice Days program as the first film directed and starring an openly trans woman of color to screen in competition.

San Francisco 49ers chief, Hannah Gordon, has developed a game plan to get more women a seat at the world’s biggest boys club, otherwise known as the NFL.

Isabel Sandoval’s groundbreaking film “Lingua Franca” is finally receiving a release date in America thanks to Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Releasing. The project caused a sensation at 2019’s Venice International Film Festival Venice Days program.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterCast has rounded out on Roald & Beatrix, The Tail Of The Curious Mouse, a Sky original Christmas movie starring Dawn French as beloved author Beatrix Potter.Jessica Hynes (W1A), Rob Brydon (The Trip), Alison Steadman (Gavin and Stacey), Nina Sosanya (Brave New World), Bill Bailey (In The Long Run) and Nick Mohammed have all joined the project, which begins shooting today (August 24).Written by Abi Wilson, the film is inspired by the true story of when a

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LONG BEACH — Due to COVID-19, Long Beach’s QFilm Festival will be virtual this year.

San Francisco 49ers chief administrative officer is speaking out on how the present racial reckoning in the United States has impacted the NFL.