Lingua Franca

Interviews, Women's History Month

16 min read

Spark of Access: Marya E. Gates on Her New Book, “Cinema Her Way”

by Rebecca Martin

March 28, 2025

It’s wonderful to meet someone like Marya E. Gates whose mission is so closely aligned with that of Cinema Femme. She has spent well over a decade using her platforms,

April Showcase, Asian American, Film Festivals, LGBTQ+, Profile

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Cinema Femme and Letterboxd present: A Conversation with Isabel Sandoval

by cinemafemme

April 13, 2021

A CONVERSATION WITH ISABEL SANDOVAL, Wednesday, April 14th, at 4:00 PM EST, as part of our April Showcase. Join us as we pay tribute to filmmaker Isabel Sandoval (“Lingua Franca”) with a

Asian American, Interviews, LGBTQ+, Social Justice, Trans Awareness Week

9 min read

Isabel Sandoval beautifully elevates the marginalized in “Lingua Franca”

by Rebecca Martin

August 28, 2020

“Every image or sound is a vessel for emotion: rapture, despair, sensuousness, fury, a combination of these. That makes cinema a kind of legerdemain: the art of sculpting such seemingly

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