Lingua Franca is a 2019 drama film written and directed by Isabel Sandoval. The film stars Sandoval, Lynn Cohen, Eamon Farren, Lev Gorn, and Ivory Aquino. The plot follows an undocumented Filipina trans woman who works as a caregiver for Olga, an elderly Russian woman in Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach. When Olivia runs out of options to attain legal status in the US, she becomes romantically involved with Alex, Olga’s adult grandson, in the pursuit of a marriage-based green card. Lingua Franca premiered at the Venice Days sidebar of the 2019 Venice Film Festival. In July 2020, the film was acquired by Ava Duvernay’s distribution company ARRAY and was later released on Netflix on August 26.