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“Movies about trans characters tend to focus on the gender transition process,” Sandoval said... “I wanted ‘Lingua Franca’ to start where these trans narratives usually end. Her transition is well behind her. That’s where I was really chronicling, in a fictional narrative, my own experiences as a trans woman living in Brooklyn.”

“One of the truly jarring emotional experiences I had when I transitioned was the first time I realized I was attracting male attention,” she said. “I felt flattered, and it gave me such a rush, but at the same time I became anxious and worried about my own safety and well-being, that feeling of being both powerful and vulnerable at the same time. I wanted to distill that and capture that feeling through the film, and through Olivia.”

..."to see someone in [the trans] community share a different kind of story, I think, is transforming not just for that community but for the world.”