Call Her Ganda

When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina trans woman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case--an activist attorney, a transgender journalist and Jennifer's mother)--galvanize a political uprising, pursuing justice and taking on hardened histories of US imperialism.

Cast

Naomi Fontanos

as herself

Julita Laude

as herself

Virginia Lacsa Suarez

as herself

Meredith Talusan

as herself

Jennifer Laude

as herself

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