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Isabelle Carbonell, the founder of IzacaProductions LLC, is an award-winning documentary filmmaker who documents social, whimsical, ethnographic, and environmental stories around the world. She has worked with NationalGeographic, taught at Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar, and otherwise carries her two eyes with her on journeys around the world in search for stories and adventure. Currently, she has just finished her first feature “OneHundred Fires/Somos Buzos,” and she is working on her second feature”The Camel Race” for Al-Jazeera Documentary Channel, among other projects. Though based out of Washington D.C., she’s half-Belgian and half-Uruguayan and her films have been featured in film festivals internationally. She graduated from the Residential College at the University of Michigan with degrees in Environmental and Social Science, but since, Isabelle’sdocumentary skills have taken her to countries such as India, Qatar, UAE, Cuba, Mexico, Vietnam, the Dominican Republic, Nepal, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Oman, and Nicaragua