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Here’s Part 2 of our one-on-one interview on Zoom with New York-based Filipino filmmaker Isabel Sandoval, whose award-winning film “Lingua Franca” can already be streamed on TBA Studios’ website Cinema ’76 @ Home (cinema76fs.eventive.org/welcome).

What has changed in your filmmaking sensibility since you transitioned?

It’s just a matter of being more authentic and truer to myself. When I decided to transition, it wasn’t necessarily because I wanted to be a woman. I was just transitioning to become myself more fully—but as a woman.

How did you find your leading man Eamon Farren, who’s exceptional and compellingly unpredictable as Alex?

My producers were b…

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