
Directing
Isabela Costa
Place of birth
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Known for
Directing
Credits
7 titles
Isabela Costa is a filmmaker from Rio de Janeiro focused on formal instability and deviation in narrative. Practicing in 16mm, Super 8, and digital formats, with additional work in 35mm still photography, she holds an MFA in Film/Video from CalArts.
Known for
NRSix immigrant women in Los Angeles reflect on intuition, perception, and the mythologies of the city. A collage of documentary footage, voiced recollections, and diaristic entries shapes lived experience and speculation into a shared vision of Los Angeles.
Somewhere Else
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NRIn Rio de Janeiro, two friends who are almost codependent wander around alienated and afraid of boredom. Meanwhile, a filmmaker investigates these two young people.
Ana & Oto
2025
NRA few days before the apocalypse, a lonely young woman has a revelation: she has been wrongly trying to fit in on Earth, as she is actually a sea creature.
Living Fish
2025
NRAn employee of God takes a break from heaven's bureaucracy and spends some time on Earth. Through the eyes of an angel, the mundane realms can be more mesmerizing than the rigidity within a perfect (and repetitive) paradise.
eternity on a loop
2021
Behind the camera
NRSix immigrant women in Los Angeles reflect on intuition, perception, and the mythologies of the city. A collage of documentary footage, voiced recollections, and diaristic entries shapes lived experience and speculation into a shared vision of Los Angeles.
Somewhere Else
—
NRSix immigrant women in Los Angeles reflect on intuition, perception, and the mythologies of the city. A collage of documentary footage, voiced recollections, and diaristic entries shapes lived experience and speculation into a shared vision of Los Angeles.
Somewhere Else
—
NRIn Rio de Janeiro, two friends who are almost codependent wander around alienated and afraid of boredom. Meanwhile, a filmmaker investigates these two young people.
Ana & Oto
2025
NRA few days before the apocalypse, a lonely young woman has a revelation: she has been wrongly trying to fit in on Earth, as she is actually a sea creature.
Living Fish
2025
NRA few days before the apocalypse, a lonely young woman has a revelation: she has been wrongly trying to fit in on Earth, as she is actually a sea creature.
Living Fish
2025
NRAn employee of God takes a break from heaven's bureaucracy and spends some time on Earth. Through the eyes of an angel, the mundane realms can be more mesmerizing than the rigidity within a perfect (and repetitive) paradise.
eternity on a loop
2021
NRAn employee of God takes a break from heaven's bureaucracy and spends some time on Earth. Through the eyes of an angel, the mundane realms can be more mesmerizing than the rigidity within a perfect (and repetitive) paradise.
eternity on a loop
2021
