ABOUT
ISABEL SADURNI
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I’m an award winning producer, editor and writer who has worked on scripted and non-fiction projects across multiple platforms in partnership with PBS, Amazon Studios, Disney Television, HBO, Discovery and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. I’ve worked as a freelance documentary filmmaker for over 20 years, focusing on social issues facing our global community. My work as editor on such films as What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael and The American Nurse has screened at numerous film festivals, including Berlin and Telluride. My work includes stories that range in subject from transgender youth to the intersection of nursing and politics. I’ve produced and shot films in China, Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, Australia, and 3 countries in Africa. My work as an Editor has been recognized by the State Department. A podcast I produced, hosted and edited is permanently archived in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
My family, made up entirely of doctors and nurses, ran a community health clinic in a small village in Mexico. Everyone in our town felt connected and supported out of necessity. It’s that same small town sensibility that I bring to my stories. It’s also the kind of above and below the line family I like to build around my projects.
I’ve taught graduate level courses in production at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Documentary Film and Video where I received my master’s degree.
As as screenwriter I tend towards stories of independent working class single mothers, spotlighting authentic female friendships that often involve choices of moral complexity. I’m interested in redefining the boundaries of the contemporary heroism. I’ve also been a contributing writer to ArtForum, Wired and Filmmaker. I got my start working as a documentary editor for The Criterion Collection.
I’m passionate about engaging with a global audience. My goal, as a filmmaker, is to develop a more profound understanding of our common visual language and the primal forces underlying stories that connect viewers of all ages.
I’m a graduate of U.C. Berkeley (B.S.,Philosophy/Physics) and Stanford University (M.A., Communications).
Recently my work as a consultant for virtual production has fostered interaction with a roster of creatives at Amazon Studios, Disney Television and Industrial Light and Magic. I’m is part of a team overseeing studio integration of breakthrough virtual production technologies and dynamic new collaborative workflows across a slate of series and feature titles.
Find out more at www.isabelsadurni.com
Storytelling is magic. Bringing diverse perspectives together to tell those stories is what empowers every audience to take part in that experience.
In front of and behind the camera, representation matters.
Isabel lives in Brooklyn, NY
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