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:

• Coming to Our Senses beyond the Talking-Head: the Panesthetic Documentary Interview (2018)
• The Ethics of Big Data in Big Agriculture (2016)
• Golden Snail Opera: the More-Than-Human-Performance of Friendly Farming on Taiwan's Lanyang Plain (2016)

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	Somos Buzos	Documentary Film Festival in Dominican Republic
2014	One Hundred Fires/Somos Buzos	Frozen River Film Festival
2013	One Hundred Fires/Somos Buzos	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 as 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

Exhibitions/Screenings

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
2013	Syria: Before the Civil War	Affinity Lab
2012	BaffleTheir Minds with Bullsh*t, Kerry Leigh	DC Source Theater
2011	Cuba documentary photographs	Havana Village in Washington, D.C.
2008	Our Environment; the Good, Bad, and the Ugly	Colorado at the Center for Fine Art Photography
2007	Palindrome	Residential College Art Gallery in Ann Arbor, MI
2007	Vietnam documentary photographs	Tryst Gallery in Washington, D.C.
2006	Mexico: Chasing the American Dream	Residential College Art Gallery in Ann Arbor, MI
2006	Vietnam documentary photographs	Michigan Union in Ann Arbor
2006	Cuba documentary photographs	Cafe Ambrosia in Ann Arbor, MI
2006	Cuba documentary photographs	RGB Communications in Ann Arbor, MI
2006	Vietnam documentary photographs	Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Michigan
2005	Tattoos	Residential College Art Gallery in Ann Arbor, MI
2005	Tattoos	Protest Art Show in Ann Arbor, MI
2004	Long Hair	Soho Tea & Coffee in Washington, D.C.
2004	Cuba documentary photographs	Rendez-Vous Cafe in Ann Arbor, MI
2004	Cuba documentary photographs	Soho Tea & Coffee in Washington, D.C.

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.

External links

• Official Website of Isabelle Carbonell