Director: Isabel Sandoval
USA, Philippines / 2019 / 95´
In this beguiling drama, an undocumented Filipina immigrant paranoid about deportation works as a caregiver to a Russian-Jewish grandmother in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. When the American 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 transgender.
Screenplay: Isabel Sandoval
Producer: Jhett Tolentino, Carlo Velayo, Darlene Catly Malimas, Isabel Sandoval
Cinematographer: Isaac Banks
Art Director: Clint Ramos
Editing: Isabel Sandoval
Cast: Isabel Sandoval, Eamon Farren, Ivory Aquino, PJ Boudousque, Lev Gorn, Lynn Cohen