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Isabelle Carbonell

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Isabelle Carbonell is a Belgian-Uruguayan-American award-winning experimental documentary filmmaker, and an assistant film professor at the American University of Paris.[1] She holds a PhD in film from the University of California, Santa Cruz.[2] Her research and practice lie at the intersection of expanded documentary, environmental justice, and the Anthropocene, while striving to develop new visual and sonic approaches and methods to rethink documentary filmmaking and create a "multispecies cinema".[3] Imbued in all her work is the connection between the slow violence of environmental disaster, climate change, bodies of water, more-than-humans, and the future. Carbonell's award-winning films and installation works have been presented in museums, film festivals, and art galleries internationally.

Academic publications

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

Education

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Carbonell holds a PhD in film from the University of California, Santa Cruz.[3] 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

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  • Princess Grace Award | Graduate Film Scholarship 2019[4]
  • 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

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Year Title Festival
[this is an incomplete list of screenings]
2022 When Monsters Walked the Earth Athens International Film Festival
2020 The Blessed Assurance Georgia Documentary Film Festival
2020 The Blessed Assurance Athens International Film Festival
2019 The Blessed Assurance Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
2019 River Runs Red Rio de Janeiro WebDoc
2019 River Runs Red Seoul Webdoc
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

Filmography

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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
2016/2019 The Golden Snail Opera Cultural Anthropology
2018 The River Runs Red Izaca Productions
2018 The Blessed Assurance Izaca Productions
2019 The Camel Race Izaca Productions
2020 The Mississippi Multiverse Izaca Productions / HKW Berlin
2020 Polyps are a Pluriverse Izaca Productions / Feral Atlas
2021 A Mirror of the Earth Izaca Productions
2021 A Mirror of the Cosmos Izaca Productions / Princess Grace Awards
2021 When Monsters Walked the Earth Izaca Productions / Imagine Science FF

Installations

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Year Work Exhibited Organization
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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

References

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  1. ^ "Isabelle Carbonell". www.aup.edu. April 3, 2022. Retrieved April 3, 2022.
  2. ^ "Isabelle Carbonell | Film & Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz". film.ucsc.edu. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  3. ^ a b "Attuning to the Pluriverse: Documentary Filmmaking Methods, Environmental Disasters, & The More-Than-Human". escholarship.org. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  4. ^ "Isabelle Carbonell". Princess Grace Foundation-USA. Retrieved April 3, 2022.
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