Isabelle Carbonell

{{Short description|Belgian-Uruguayan-American documentary filmmaker}}

Isabelle Carbonell is a Belgian-Uruguayan-American award-winning experimental documentary filmmaker, and an assistant film professor at the American University of Paris.{{Cite web |date=2022-04-03 |title=Isabelle Carbonell |url=https://www.aup.edu/profile/icarbonell |access-date=2022-04-03 |website=www.aup.edu |language=en}} She holds a PhD in film from the University of California, Santa Cruz.{{Cite web |title=Isabelle Carbonell {{!}} Film & Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz |url=https://film.ucsc.edu/phd_program/students/isabelle_carbonell |access-date=2023-03-20 |website=film.ucsc.edu}} 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".{{Cite thesis |title=Attuning to the Pluriverse: Documentary Filmmaking Methods, Environmental Disasters, & The More-Than-Human |url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7jf9t2pr |access-date=2023-03-20 |website=escholarship.org}} 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

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

[https://www.routledge.com/.../Ryan.../p/book/9781032001319?fbclid=IwAR2_XYkYguBoHGPFtbrZGOgirCFEhw0Ibdjb7MT58kqdZwOg7I4zRVJcARI Interactive Multispecies Documentary Methods (2022)]
[https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Contemporary-Art-Visual-Culture-and-Climate/Demos-Scott-Banerjee/p/book/9780367221102 Multispecies Cinema in Wretched Waters: The Slow Violence of the Rio Doce Disaster (2021)]
[https://feralatlas.supdigital.org/poster/polyps-are-a-pluriverse Polyps are a Pluriverse in the Feral Atlas (2020)]
[https://worldrecordsjournal.org/ A Story on Story: Camel Racing, Robot Jockeys, and Documentary Filmmaking (2020)]
[http://departamento.pucp.edu.pe/comunicaciones/files/2018/09/CONEXION-No-9.pdf Coming to Our Senses beyond the Talking-Head: the Panesthetic Documentary Interview (2018)]
[https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/ethics-big-data-big-agriculture The Ethics of Big Data in Big Agriculture (2016)]
[https://culanth.org/articles/851-golden-snail-opera-the-more-than-human Golden Snail Opera: the More-Than-Human-Performance of Friendly Farming on Taiwan's Lanyang Plain (2016)]

Education

Carbonell holds a PhD in film from 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

Princess Grace Award | Graduate Film Scholarship 2019{{Cite web |title=Isabelle Carbonell |url=https://pgfusa.org/award-winners-chronoorder/isabelle-carbonell/ |access-date=2022-04-03 |website=Princess Grace Foundation-USA |language=en-US}}
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