In the 5 years given that her outbreak Lingua Franca, Isabel Sandoval has actually delved into shorts and television directing, and now she’s lastly established her function follow-up. Starting manufacturing next month in the Philippines, her 4th function is the romantic noir Moonglow, which the supervisor refers to as “in the vein of In a Lonely Place and Casablanca” and combines “the gritty world of Philippine crime and politics” with “lush romanticism”.
Starring Arjo Atayde, the 1960s-set movie occurs in Manila and adheres to “a jaded female police detective, who unbeknownst to her colleagues is the mastermind behind a successful heist, but who is paired up with an obsessively truth-seeking detective partner to crack the very crime that she orchestrated,” Target date records.
“In the midst of my involvement in various U.S. projects, my storytelling always finds its way back to the heart of my homeland,” statedSandoval “The film is about the tragedy of losing one’s moral compass, an elegy to the death of idealism and sense of integrity within oneself. It subverts noir conventions with its subtle feminist bent.”
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