Writer/Director
Spell, Scout Film Festival 2016 Winner Best Overall Film
Isabella Olaguera is a New Jersey-based filmmaker. During high school, Isabella's short films garnered a total of 115 international acceptances and awards from film festivals including Scout, All American High School, Tallgrass International, Los Angeles International, Chicago International Children's, and the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.
After graduating high school, Isabella made the decision to skip college and pursue a career in Assistant Directing right away. She thanks her parents and brother (all professionals in the arts with backgrounds in graphic design, filmmaking and fine arts) for their unending support of her choice. SInce then, Isabella has assistant directed 5 feature films in addition to many shorts, pilots and web productions. Some of her notable projects include:
FML: The Movie, directed by and starring vine stars
Jason Nash,
Brandon Calvillo and
Bart Baker; Horror Time (working title) Executive Produced by
James Franco; and
My Nephew Emmett, a short film about Emmett Till that was featured on CNN and in Time Magazine.
Isabella is a proud (and quite possibly the youngest) member of New York Women in Film and Television, a selective nonprofit organization that supports the success of women in the industry. Assistat Directing is Isabella's full-time job and her main passion; it allows her to be incredibly self-sufficient, travel to distant places, meet other talented crew members and contribute to unique and fascinating projects.
Isabella keeps her age a well-kept secret to most crews she works with and strongly believes that age bears no indication to talent, professionalism and industry experience. Isabella aims to become a trainee for the Director's Guild of America and hopes to one day become a union 1st AD. She plans on submitting the application on her 21st birthday (the youngest a DGA member is allowed).