Isabel Sadurni

International, award-winning independent writer and filmmaker, Isabel Sadurni, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She spent the first year of her life in the state of Veracruz, Mexico with a nurse mother and a doctor father who rode horseback above the village of Alamo de Campeche to offer antibiotics and western medical treatment to mountain Mexicans dependent upon shamanistic ritual remedies. It is here, she believes, that her obsession with making the foreign familiar and cross-cultural exchange began.

Isabel has produced, directed, shot and edited documentaries and narratives ranging in subject from the Chinese Cultural Revolution to New Orleans Black-Indian Mardi Gras. Her work has aired on regional television, has screened in festivals around the world and is a part of the permanent collection in the videotheque for the Musée de l'Homme in Paris, France.

A feature documentary she recently edited, TOOTIE'S LAST SUIT, received the Jean Rouch Award from the American Society of Anthropology and has been well-received at festivals including the Tribeca and Full Frame Film Festivals.

She holds a B.A. from the Philosophy Department from the University of California at Berkeley and a Masters in Communication from Stanford University's Graduate Program for Documentary Film and Video. She speaks French and Spanish in addition to her mother tongue of American English.

She currently lives in New York City.