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Starring Isabel Sandoval, Lynn Cohen, Eamon Farren. This poignant human drama from acclaimed writer-director-star Isabel Sandoval follows Olivia (Sandoval), an undocumented Filipina trans woman, after she has secured a job as a live-in caregiver for Olga (Lynn Cohen), an elderly Russian woman in Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach neighborhood.
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Lingua Franca. This poignant human drama from acclaimed writer-director-star Isabel Sandoval follows Olivia (Sandoval), an undocumented Filipina trans woman, after she has secured a job as a live-in caregiver for Olga (Lynn Cohen), an elderly Russian woman in Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach neighborhood.
Sep 11, 2020 · When Olga’s deadbeat grandson Alex ( Eamon Farren) moves into the apartment where the two women live, Olivia sees lust grow into affection despite the young man’s constant display of bright red flags. Source: Array. Lingua Franca is almost voyeuristic.
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Lingua Franca. 2019 · 1 hr 35 min. TV-14. Drama · Foreign/International · LGBT. This indie festival favorite tells the story of an undocumented transgender Filipino caregiver seeking marriage in New York City for a green card.
Directed by Isabel Sandoval. Olivia, an undocumented Filipina immigrant paranoid about deportation works as a caregiver to a Russian-Jewish grandmother in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, NY. When the man she’s secretly paying for a green card marriage backs out, she becomes involved with a slaughterhouse worker who is unaware that she’s a trans woman.
