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Big Beach To Produce Period Allegory ‘Tropical Gothic’ From ‘Lingua Franca’ Filmmaker Isabel Sandoval

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EXCLUSIVE: Big Beach has announced that it will produce the upcoming feature Tropical Gothic from Lingua Franca‘s Isabel Sandoval.Set in the 16th-century Philippines, Tropical Gothic is an allegory on Western colonialism about a Native Priestess who convinces her Spanish master that she is possessed by the spirit of his dead bride, in order to manipulate him into returning the farmland that the Spaniards seized from the native community.Sandoval and producer Carlo Velayo launched the project in 2020 at the Locarno Open Doors Hub—an international platform for feature projects within Latin America and the Caribbean looking for international collaborations.

The pair received the VFF Talent Highlight Award at the Berlinale Talent Project Market in March, with the associated prize money going toward the film’s development.

Sandoval will direct from her script and star, with Michael B. Clark and Alex Turtletaub producing for Big Beach, alongside Velayo.

Production kicks off later this year.Sandoval is a Filipina actress, writer, director, producer and editor whose film Lingua Franca made history at the 2019 Venice Film Festival, as the first in competition there to be directed by and star a trans woman of color.

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