Isabel Sandoval is a New York–based filmmaker represented for US/UK work by Black Dog Films (Ridley Scott Associates) since May 2021. She established herself with Philippine features Señorita (2011, Locarno) and Apparition (2012), both later streamed on the Criterion Channel, then broke through with Lingua Franca (2019), which she wrote, directed, produced, edited, and starred in. The film premiered in competition at Venice, earned an Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award nomination, won Best Narrative Feature at Bentonville Film Festival, and was distributed by ARRAY/Netflix. In 2021 she directed Shangri-La for the Prada Group’s Miu Miu Women’s Tales series, joining prior contributors including Agnès Varda, Lucrecia Martel, Ava DuVernay, Miranda July, and Lynne Ramsay. Television credits include FX’s Under the Banner of Heaven (2022)—the emotionally intense “Revelation” episode with Andrew Garfield, Daisy Edgar-Jones, and Billy Howle—plus episodes of Tell Me Lies (2022) and The Summer I Turned Pretty (2023). Her noir-romance feature Moonglow is dated 2026. Sandoval conceives films as shots strung together into scenes, prioritizing imagery and sound design over dialogue, and works as an auteur-editor who writes. IMDb records 15 wins and 35 nominations.