Eu Não Sou Cineasta
Feature documentary — In completion
Founder & CEO
Filmmaker — Editor — Screenwriter
Izabela
Silva
Brazilian filmmaker, editor and screenwriter based in Barcelona. Founder and CEO of Abre Caminho Filmes.
Her practice moves between directing, editing and writing, investigating the relationships between memory, archives and poetry.
Izabela holds a degree in Film and Audiovisual from PUC Minas, a Master's in Creative Documentary from Universitat Pompeu Fabra and a postgraduate specialization in Post-production Coordination from ESCAC. Her work engages with creative documentary and explores hybrid forms between essay film, film correspondence and autobiography.
As a director, her films have been presented at international festivals, museums and galleries including the Ropewalk Museum, Museu Casa das Rosas, Art Veine Gallery and the Latin American Festival Confluências de Arte.
Alongside her directing practice, she has worked as an editor and assistant director on documentaries by filmmakers including Mercedes Álvarez, Maria Mauti, Eva Vila and Sonia Guggisberg.
As a screenwriter, she collaborated on Julia Hannud's Carcereiras and Nathan Siegel's Percebeiros. In 2023, she founded Sara y Rosa, an Ibero-American platform for feminist film criticism, curatorial research and the circulation of cinema made by women and gender-diverse filmmakers.
Izabela is completing her first feature documentary, Eu Não Sou Cineasta, developed between Brazil and Spain with support from BRDE / ANCINE, BH nas Telas, Lei Paulo Gustavo and LABED — Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
View the project ↗01Film and Audiovisual — PUC Minas
02Master's in Creative Documentary — Universitat Pompeu Fabra
03Post-production Coordination — ESCAC
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Selected filmography
Direction, writing,
editing and collaboration
Directing
Life
Documentary short — Ropewalk Museum, United Kingdom
La Ventana
Video poem — Confluências de Arte · Art Veine Gallery
A Nova Era do Jiu-Jitsu
Documentary web series — 10 episodes
Mãe
Video poem
Uma Semana na Cidade dos Sonhos
Video poem — Cartas Visuais collection
Rio Morto
Experimental documentary short — InShort Film Festival · Museu Casa das Rosas
Carlito
Documentary short
A Casa do Tempo Perdido
Documentary short
Screenwriting
Percebeiros
Feature documentary — Directed by Nathan Siegel · ICAA Script Development Programme
Carcereiras
Feature documentary — Directed by Julia Hannud · Campus Latino · Nuevas Miradas · Fulgor Lab · It's All True · Cannes Docs
Editing
A Alegria dos Peixes
Documentary short — Directed by Helena Peñalver
Germaine Dulac: ¿Quién teme al cine?
Documentary short — Directed by Mercedes Álvarez
Agnès Varda: Los dos lados del espejo
Documentary short — Directed by Mercedes Álvarez
You Are My Eyes
Feature documentary — Directed by Sonia Guggisberg
Assistant Direction & Editing
Miralles
Feature documentary — Assistant director · Directed by Maria Mauti
Syntony
Feature documentary — Assistant editor · Directed by Eva Vila