Trans Filmmaker

LGBTQ+, reviews, Sundance, Sundance 40, Trans Awareness Week

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Sundance 40 Review: An Intersectional Exploration of Transmasculinity and Identity Makes “Desire Lines” A True Standout

by Emily Jacobson

January 25, 2024

On Friday, January 19th, the Utah House of Representatives voted to advance a restrictive anti-trans bill outlawing trans people from using bathrooms aligning with their gender identity. It will now

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, Film Festivals, Interviews, LGBTQ+

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SXSW 2021: “See You Then” tells a universal tale from a trans Asian American filmmaker

by Rebecca Martin

March 19, 2021

With the atrocities that happened this week in Atlanta that resulted in the deaths of Asian American women, and with the hashtag #StopAsianHate streaming through social media, a film like

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

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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