Born in 1988 and raised bilingually in São Paulo and Bonn. Master's degrees in Comparative Literature in Vienna, Aix-en-Provence and Rio de Janeiro. Several internships and assistant jobs at municipal theaters and theatre festivals like Burgtheater Vienna, Thalia Theater Hamburg, Wiener Festwochen and the Festival d’Avignon Off, followed by a screenwriting degree at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb). Screenings of short films at film festivals like "International Hofer Filmtage".
Winner of the 2017 script competition "Images of women in world literature" of the German broadcaster 3sat. Participation in an intercultural writers’ room in Kampala and Accra in 2018 and 2019. Nomination of the mid-length film PENTHESILEA (directed by Maximilian Villwock) for the Young Talents Award of "Studio Hamburg“ as well as a residency at the "Mare Künstlerhaus" supported by the Roger Willemsen scholarship in 2019. Winner of the script development award of the city of Salzburg for the film feature script BROKEN BASE (orig. Risse im Fundament), with production funded by the state film fund "Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg" and the German broadcaster "Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg".
Isabella's work interrogates power structures and seeks to communicate empathy by challenging Eurocentric and patriarchal perspectives with a queer-feminist gaze. She lives and works in Berlin and maintains strong connections to São Paulo.
Born in 1988 and raised bilingually in São Paulo and Bonn. Master's degrees in Comparative Literature in Vienna, Aix-en-Provence and Rio de Janeiro. Several internships and assistant jobs at municipal theaters and theatre festivals like Burgtheater Vienna, Thalia Theater Hamburg, Wiener Festwochen and the Festival d’Avignon Off, followed by a screenwriting degree at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb). Screenings of short films at film festivals like "International Hofer Filmtage". Winner of the 2017 script competition "Images of women in world literature" of the German broadcaster 3sat. Participation in an intercultural writers’ room in Kampala and Accra in 2018 and 2019. Nomination of the mid-length film PENTHESILEA (directed by Maximilian Villwock) for the Young Talents Award of "Studio Hamburg“ as well as a residency at the "Mare Künstlerhaus" supported by the Roger Willemsen scholarship in 2019. Winner of the script development award of the city of Salzburg for the film feature script BROKEN BASE (orig. Risse im Fundament), with production funded by the state film fund "Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg" and the German broadcaster "Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg".
Isabella's work interrogates power structures and seeks to communicate empathy by challenging Eurocentric and patriarchal perspectives. She lives and works in Berlin and maintains strong connections to São Paulo.