Nothing Holier Than A Dolphin

Greek director and medical doctor, selected in Sarajevo Talents 2021. Her first short film ’54/The Blind Turtle and the Endless Sea’ (2020) screened in Oscar-qualifying festivals and more than 20 countries worldwide. Following its festival run, the film, distributed by Salaud Morisset, was acquired by CANAL+ in France and Cosmote TV Cinema in Greece and Cyprus. Her second script ‘Nothing Holier Than A Dolphin’ (2022) was awarded by one of Europe’s most significant environmental organizations as a story offering great environmental insight. The film had its international premiere in January 2023 at the world’s largest short film festival, Clermont Ferrand in France, where it won the International Audience Award. Isabella is currently working on her third short film, which is going to be a French/Greek co-production. At the same time, she is developing her first feature film, based on the novel ‘Black Water’ by M. Makropoulos, a post-apocalyptic western set on the rough mountains of Epirus (State Literature Award – Greece, 2020). She’s interested in the therapeutic aspect of art and the transformation point between reality and fantasy. Nature and feminism are recurrent themes in her work.