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:
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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

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.

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 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, Athens International Film and Video Festival, and Gasparilla Film Festival, and has been featured in a Michigan Difference PSA. She is noted for her work with NGO Crossing Borders in Vietnam, and has been discussed in numerous press articles including the New York Times, the Michigan Daily, and the University of Michigan LSA Magazine, as well as being featured in a Local Point television interview.
Her work has been published in several places including Skipping Stones Magazine, Gourmet.com, Convergence Journal, and the Oleander Review; she received special and honorable mentions in the World Health Organization's photo competition and the Islands 19th Annual Photo Contest. 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.
YearTitleDistributor
2006Mexico: Chasing the American DreamIzaca Productions
2006NGO Crossing Borders in VietnamNGO Crossing Borders
2007PalindromeIzaca Productions
2007Vietnam: Three Short PoemsIzaca Productions
2007Water WarriorsIzaca Productions
2007Shakespeare's Sonnet 2Izaca Productions
2009Books Unbound: The Heritage Library in QatarCarnegie Mellon University & Qatar Foundation
2010ZubarahUniversity of Copenhagen & Qatar Museums Authority
2010Miki Flow: Cuban Hip HopIzaca Productions
2010Tango in Jerash, JordanIzaca Productions
20106 Day in KazakhstaniCarnegie
2011Beirut International Tango FestivalIzaca Productions
2011TrashbornPassion River Distribution
2011Mi Aldea Mi Langosta: My Village, My LobsterNomading Films
2009/2012SHOOT.EDIT.SHARE, Experimental Ethnographic ShortsIzaca Productions
2012Baffle Their Minds With Bullsh*t, Kerry LeighIzaca Productions
2012The Souk of AleppoIzaca Productions
2012Nepal: Prayer WheelsIzaca Productions
2013Las Palomas, Me Encantan Izaca Productions
2016The Golden Snail OperaCultural Anthropology
2018The River Runs RedIzaca Productions
2018The Blessed AssuranceIzaca Productions
2018The Camel RaceIzaca Productions

Exhibitions/Screenings