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Randal Poster April 3, 2pm EDT

Randall Poster, a double-Grammy winner graduate of Brown University, is one of the most highly sought-after music supervisors in the film and television industries. His extensive musical knowledge has bolstered the work of some of the most innovative film directors of the last two decades. In 1996 Poster produced the soundtrack for Larry Clark’s film Kids, a foray into music supervision that led to collaborations in independent and commercial cinema. His distinctive ear has been essential to the musical identities of critically acclaimed films including School of Rock and Boyhood (Richard Linklater), Country Strong (Shana Feste), Meet the Parents (Jay Roach), The Hangover Parts I, II and III (Todd Phillips), and Skyfall 007 (Sam Mendes).

Poster has been essential in shaping the aesthetic of all of Wes Anderson’s films from Rushmore to Grand Budapest Hotel. Poster has also developed musical identities for many Martin Scorsese’s biggest projects including Hugo, The Aviator, The Wolf of Wall Street, the hit HBO series Boardwalk Empire, and Vinyl Pretend it’s a City. Poster’s work on Boardwalk Empire and The Grand Budapest Hotel soundtrack earned him Grammys. Recent projects include The Queen’s Gambit, Tiger King, One Night in Miami, and Questlove’s Feature documentary debut Summer of Soul (...Or When The Revolution Could Not be Televised.) He also produced The Devil of All Time.

Isabel Sandoval April 5, 4 pm EDT

Director, actress, writer, producer, and editor Isabel Sandoval is the Filipina filmmaker who made history at the 2019 Venice International Film Festival’s Giornate degli Autori section with the first film directed by and starring a trans woman of color ever to screen in competition.

The film, Lingua Franca, is Ms. Sandoval’s first feature filmed in the U.S. and her third feature as director. After Venice, Lingua Franca traveled a global film festival journey into 2020 by way of the AFI Fest, BFI London Film Festival, American Film Festival Wroclaw, International Film Festival of India Goa, Festival International du Film de Mons, Palm Springs Film Festival, Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival, Hamburg International Film Festival, Vinokino Film Festival, Everybody’s Perfect LGBT Film Festival, Gender Bender Film Festival, Slovak Queer Film Festival, Thessaloniki Film Festival, and Bentonville Film Festival — where it won Best Narrative Feature. Theatrical distribution, via Ava DuVernay’s Array Now initiative, followed and Lingua Franca is now available on Netflix.

Ms. Sandoval made her directorial debut with the noir-inflected Señorita, which world-premiered in competition at the Locarno Film Festival and earned her the Emerging Director Award at the Asian American International Film Festival. Her second feature as director was the Ferdinand Marcos-era nun drama Apparition, which won the Lotus Audience Award at the Deauville Asian Film Festival following its world premiere at the Busan International Film Festival. MoMA’s Department of Film featured Apparition in its survey of new-wave Philippine filmmaking as part of the “A New Golden Age: Contemporary Philippine Cinema” series. Ms. Sandoval’s films have also been generously supported by Frameline, Jerome Foundation, Independent Filmmaker Project, Tribeca Film Institute, New York Film Academy, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, and the San Francisco International Film Festival’s Westridge Grant. The latter funds U.S.-based independent narrative feature films at the screenwriting phase.

Isabel Sandoval is a graduate from the University of San Carlos in Cebu,Philippines and earned her MBA as a graduate of NYU Stern School of Business, and currently lives in New York.