Isabelle Carbonell

Isabelle Carbonell is a Belgian-Uruguayan-American award-winning experimental documentary filmmaker and a PhD Candidate at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Academic publications

Some of Carbonell's work comprise the following academic publications:

Education

Carbonell is currently a PhD candidate at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She also received her B.A. in Residential College Social Science and in Environmental Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and completed her M.A. in Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Awards and Nominations
  • Mellon Dissertation grant Beyond the End of the World 2019-2020
  • Best Digital Media Award from Fingerlakes Environmental Film Festival 2019 for The River Runs Red
  • Best Ethnographic Interactive Award from the American Anthropological Association 2018 for The River Runs Red
  • Honorable Mention for Cultural Horizons Prize 2017 for Golden Snail Opera
  • Berkeley Law Human Rights Fellowship Grant 2017 for The River Runs Red
  • Georgetown University Environmental Initiative Grant 2017 for The River Runs Red
  • Jessica Roy Award 2016 for The River Runs Red
  • Best Director Award at IdyllWild Film Festival 2015 for Trashborn
  • Best Editing Award at the BAWIFV Film Festival 2013 for Baffle Their Minds With Bullsh*t
  • World Health Organization in Kampala, Uganda. Honorable mention Vietnam and Public Health 2008
  • James H. Robertson Award for Photography and Studio Arts, Residential College University of Michigan 2007

Film Festivals
Year Title Festival
2019 The Blessed Assurance Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
2018 River Runs Red Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival
2015 Trashborn IdyllWild Film Festival
2014 Trashborn Documentary Film Festival in Dominican Republic
2014 Trashborn Frozen River Film Festival
2013 Trashborn Habana Film Festival (El Festival del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano)
2013 Baffle Their Minds with Bullsh*t, Kerry Leigh BAWIFV Film Festival in San Francisco
2013 Baffle Their Minds with Bullsh*t, Kerry Leigh Santa Monica Film Festival
2013 Baffle Their Minds with Bullsh*t, Kerry Leigh College Town Film Festival
2013 Baffle Their Minds with Bullsh*t, Kerry Leigh Annapolis Film Festival
2013 Baffle Their Minds with Bullsh*t, Kerry Leigh Bethesda Film Festival
2012 Baffle Their Minds with Bullsh*t, Kerry Leigh DC Shorts
2012 Baffle Their Minds with Bullsh*t, Kerry Leigh DC Independent Film Festival
2011 Water Warriors Water Rights Film Festival of Japan
2008 Palindrome Ohio Independent Film Festival
2008 Mexico: Chasing the American Dream New Filmmakers Latino Anthology
2008 Palindrome Athens International Film and Video Festival
2008 Palindrome Kansas City Jubilee Film Festival
2008 Palindrome Washington DC Independent Film Festival
2007 Water Warriors Environmental Water Festival, Japan
2007 Palindrome Film Farm X Festival
2007 Mexico:Chasing the American Dream Gasparilla Film Festival

Career

2018

Carbonell was a Leading Instructor/Course Designer for a film production course at the University of California, Santa Cruz for Ecocinema Theory and Practice.[1]

2004

Carbonell worked as a Co-Instructor/Course Designer at Your World Through Your Lens: A Photo Education through the University of Michigan Detroit, MI. This was an intensive 2-month photography class with disadvantaged inner-city youths in Detroit. Here, she designed and coordinated all lesson plans and speakers for the duration of the workshop. She received several grants for projects; learned and refined grant-writing skills. Students successfully finished individual photo stories, exhibited at 555 gallery.

Isabelle was the Leading Instructor/Writer at the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) through the University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI. Here she taught an intensive theater and poetry class to incarcerated youths, engaged extremely difficult participants to successfully write and act out their own work, as well as produce a successful performance to a 500+ audience while still incarcerated.

2009

Carbonell worked as a Leading Instructor/Course Designer at Carnegie Mellon University/Q Class "Documentary Filmmaking for Software Design" in Doha, Qatar. She developed original undergraduate curriculum material for a semester-long class, taught documentary filmmaking for cross-platform applications in producing and presenting research and her students completed original documentary and screenings in front of 300+ audience on Carnegie Mellon campus.

2012

Isabelle was a Leading Instructor at a National Geographic VisionWorkshop Photo Camp in Doha, Qatar. She taught photography and film to underserved communities and youths from Qatar and Brazil.


2004

Carbonell has participated in numerous photo exhibitions and film festivals such as the DC Film Festival,[2] Athens International Film and Video Festival,[3] and Gasparilla Film Festival,[4] and has been featured in a Michigan Difference PSA.[5] She is noted for her work with NGO Crossing Borders in Vietnam,[6] and has been discussed in numerous press articles including the New York Times,[7] the Michigan Daily,[8][9][10] and the University of Michigan LSA Magazine,[11] as well as being featured in a Local Point television interview.[12]

Her work has been published in several places including Skipping Stones Magazine,[13] Gourmet.com,[14] Convergence Journal,[15] and the Oleander Review;[16] she received special and honorable mentions in the World Health Organization's photo competition[17] and the Islands 19th Annual Photo Contest.[18] Her documentary work has taken her to countries such as Cuba, Mexico, Vietnam, Taiwan, the Dominican Republic, India, Qatar, Uruguay, and Argentina.

Filmography

Played all roles (Producing, directing, cinematography and editing).

Year Title Distributor
2006 Mexico: Chasing the American Dream Izaca Productions
2006 NGO Crossing Borders in Vietnam NGO Crossing Borders
2007 Palindrome Izaca Productions
2007 Vietnam: Three Short Poems Izaca Productions
2007 Water Warriors Izaca Productions
2007 Shakespeare's Sonnet 2 Izaca Productions
2009 Books Unbound: The Heritage Library in Qatar Carnegie Mellon University & Qatar Foundation
2010 Zubarah University of Copenhagen & Qatar Museums Authority
2010 Miki Flow: Cuban Hip Hop Izaca Productions
2010 Tango in Jerash, Jordan Izaca Productions
2010 6 Day in Kazakhstan iCarnegie
2011 Beirut International Tango Festival Izaca Productions
2011 Trashborn Passion River Distribution
2011 Mi Aldea Mi Langosta: My Village, My Lobster Nomading Films
2009/2012 SHOOT.EDIT.SHARE, Experimental Ethnographic Shorts Izaca Productions
2012 Baffle Their Minds With Bullsh*t, Kerry Leigh Izaca Productions
2012 The Souk of Aleppo Izaca Productions
2012 Nepal: Prayer Wheels Izaca Productions
2013 Las Palomas, Me Encantan (I Love Pigeons) Izaca Productions
2016 The Golden Snail Opera Cultural Anthropology
2018 The River Runs Red Izaca Productions
2018 The Blessed Assurance Izaca Productions
2018 The Camel Race Izaca Productions

References
  1. "Special Topics in Film and Video Production: Ecocinema theory and practice: Making Films in the Anthropocene | Film+Digital Media BA, PhD / MFA in Social Documentary Production at UC Santa Cruz". film.ucsc.edu. Retrieved January 3, 2019.
  2. Archived March 7, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  3. http://www.athensfest.org/?film=PaintingWithLight
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on July 8, 2011. Retrieved October 8, 2008.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "UofM News". Umich.edu. Archived from the original on June 19, 2009. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
  6. "CSEAS: crossing borders". Umich-cseas.org. Archived from the original on September 30, 2011. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
  7. Stainburn, Samantha (November 5, 2006). "Ratio, Schmatio – New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
  8. "Crossing borders, one photo at a time". The Michigan Daily. November 2, 2006. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
  9. "How the 'U' markets itself on TV". The Michigan Daily. November 21, 2006. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
  10. "It takes two to tango". The Michigan Daily. March 29, 2004. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
  11. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 12, 2011. Retrieved October 8, 2008.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  12. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on January 22, 2010. Retrieved October 8, 2008.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  13. http://www.izaca.com/pdfs/skippingstones.pdf
  14. "Dear Lobster: Food + Cooking". gourmet.com. August 1, 2011. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
  15. http://www.izaca.com/media/press/whole_convergence.pdf
  16. http://www.izaca.com/media/press/whole_oleander.jpg
  17. "WHO | Winners photo contest "Daily life of a health worker"". Who.int. March 17, 2008. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
  18. "Photo Contest 2008 Winners". Islands.com. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
Year Work Exhibited Organization
2019 Songs of Mud - audio Poetics and Politics Symposium / University of California, Santa Cruz
2016 Tomo/veillance - audio University of California, Santa Cruz Underwater Concert
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