Kwetu / Our House
KWETU is a feature documentary investigating a medical research and architecture project and whether a healthier home can reduce the risk of malaria for future generations in rural Tanzania.
- Non-Fiction Film Director
- Documentary DP
Isla B.
London, UK
$260 - $785 / Day
About
Isla is a filmmaker & visual artist. She programmes film festival Sheffield Doc/Fest, has written articles for The Guardian, produced audio installations for London’s Science Museum, developed an Arts Council Funded VR Opera & is a BFI NETWORK x BAFTA Crew participant 2019. Isla is currently directing a feature documentary in Tanzania investigating one of the biggest medical and architectural research projects into anti-malaria alternatives, a BFI / Doc Society documentary about a vanishing community of fishermen in the rural south-west of the UK, an artistic audio/visual response to this culture in a film funded by the BBC New Creatives Scheme and an experimental book / film with Professor Brendan Stone exploring how we hold multiple realities and identities which inform an art for living life with a mental health condition. Isla has a curiosity for people and the quiet stories that surround us. Her work challenges cultural stigmas through creating atmospheric, semi-autobiographical art and filmmaking that merge documentary and fiction to question conventions and defy stereotypes. Isla captures the overlooked flickers of everyday life and presents them in a cinematic way for audiences to rediscover the unexpected beauty in familiar places and people, and to inspire others to slow down and take notice of the lives of those around them. Having been awarded funding in the UK and Denmark, her art and filmmaking explores experiences of mental health, isolated communities, gender identity and hidden cultures. Isla has directed, developed, funded, produced and distributed international documentary and fiction films such as an impact film on child illiteracy, H is for Harry, a feature on religious tolerance in Sierra Leone for Danish TV (DR3), to the fictionalised memories of a WW1 nurse in ‘Testament of Youth’. Isla's experience developing and investigating real human stories indicates her humanistic and collaborative approach to projects.
Top Services
- Non-Fiction Film Director
- Documentary DP
- Creative Director
Top Projects
The Elvermen
As the sun sets on the banks of the River Severn on the outskirts of an impoverished city in the UK, a group of men gather in a race to catch a vanishing creature, the elusive elver. THE ELVERMEN is an atmospheric short film shot over a moonlit night that reveals the last of a hidden community hunting an endangered fish.
- Non-Fiction Film Director
Elver
Inspired by the myth of the Elver and the disappearing community who hunt for them along the River Severn, this allegorical dance film illuminates their journey in parallel, exploring their secretive beauty through the language of body and sound. ‘New Creatives’ commission by BBC Arts / Arts Council England
- Creative Director
We Sing in Fire and Blood
We Sing in Fire and Blood' is a virtual reality opera exploring how we survive extreme violence. In 2010 in Bristol, UK, writer/director Hazel Grian was brutally attacked by an intruder and left for dead while the house burned. An uplifting and positive group experience, the audience encounter a cast of police officers, nurses, neighbours and friends as they sing about their part in solving a ho
- Production Assistant
Equipment
Video
- 2K video camera
- 4K video camera
- GoPro or equivalent
- Drone
Video
Audio
- External recorder
- Wireless lavalier mic
- Shotgun mic
Audio
Miscellaneous
- Shoulder rig
Miscellaneous
All Services
Production Support
- Non-Fiction Film Director
- Documentary DP
- Production Assistant
- Commercial DP
Production Support
Miscellaneous
- Senior Producer / Project Manager
- Creative Director
- Fixer
- VR / AR
Miscellaneous