Isabel Sandoval, the filmmaker who gave us "Lingua Franca" (2019) and the short film Shangri-La (2021), recently screened a fine cut of her latest feature film, "Moonglow," to a select group of filmmakers, film aficionados and friends at the Spectacle Theater in Brooklyn. Producer Alemberg Ang, who flew in from Manila, was also present. Collaborating on Sandoval's fourth feature, Ang was excited to tell us the news that Sandoval was in New York to screen the rough cut of her new crime thriller which also stars Arjo Atayde ("Trigger," "BuyBust").
Filmed in only 20 days in Manila, Quezon City, Chinatown, and Escolta, the film is set in the '60s and '70s during the Ferdinand Marcos administration. It is about this police investigator who is played by Sandoval herself. "It is a crime noir with some truth in it.
But you know Isabel, she's a very poetic, sensual filmmaker," Ang told us in an earlier interview. Written, directed, and edited by Sandoval, the film indeed has the Sandoval touch. The film also stars Sylvia Sanchez, Dennis Marasigan, Paolo O'Hara, Carlitos Siguion Reyna, Agot Isidro, Bombi Plata and Rocco Nacino.
Also in attendance during the intimate screening were writer Gil Quito and author-actress-transgender advocate Geena Rocero. The Loida Nicolas Lewis Podcast Now on its second season, the podcast has already featured a number of Filipino and Fil-Am talents, creatives, fashion designers, movers and shakers in the community. The indefatigable and charismatic Lewis,.