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Isabel Sandoval is an AT&T Untold Stories Greenlight Committee member and is recognized as “one of the most exciting and multitalented filmmakers on the indie scene with a bold approach to cinematic style” by The Criterion Collection. Meanwhile, The Museum of Modern Art has recognized her as a “rarity among the young generation of Filipino filmmakers.”
Her debut feature, Señorita, premiered at Locarno. Her widely acclaimed third feature, Lingua Franca, premiered at Venice and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. Her fourth feature Moonglow premiered at the 2026 Rotterdam Film Festival. She starred in the César Award-winning short film Maria Schneider 1983 directed by Elisabeth Subrin. She has been on the festival juries at Cannes, Locarno, BFI London, and Mumbai, and is a MacDowell and Yaddo Fellow.
She is currently developing her next feature, the 16th-century colonial drama Tropical Gothic, which won a development prize at the 2021 Berlinale Talents Project Market.
Her TV directing credits include the Emmy-nominated Under the Banner of Heaven starring Andrew Garfield and The Summer I Turned Pretty.
She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) in the Directors branch.
Isabel Sandoval is an AT&T Untold Stories Greenlight Committee member and is recognized as “one of the most exciting and multitalented filmmakers on the indie scene with a bold approach to cinematic style” by The Criterion Collection. Meanwhile, The Museum of Modern Art has recognized her as a “rarity among the young generation of Filipino filmmakers.”
Her debut feature, Señorita, premiered at Locarno. Her widely acclaimed third feature, Lingua Franca, premiered at Venice and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. Her fourth feature Moonglow premiered at the 2026 Rotterdam Film Festival. She starred in the César Award-winning short film Maria Schneider 1983 directed by Elisabeth Subrin. She has been on the festival juries at Cannes, Locarno, BFI London, and Mumbai, and is a MacDowell and Yaddo Fellow.
She is currently developing her next feature, the 16th-century colonial drama Tropical Gothic, which won a development prize at the 2021 Berlinale Talents Project Market.
Her TV directing credits include the Emmy-nominated Under the Banner of Heaven starring Andrew Garfield and The Summer I Turned Pretty.
She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) in the Directors branch.
