More About Isabelle Leonard
"just a small town girl"
Isabelle's meticulous and detail-oriented approach is as intellectual and systematic as it is creative and emotional. During her senior year of high school, Isabelle wrote, directed, produced, designed, and edited an ambitious period piece set in 1940s Warsaw, Poland called "Perspective." The short film earned her a National YoungArts award in film, and the lead actress—her guidance counselor’s six-year-old daughter—was nominated for Best Actress at the Knoxville Film Festival. Isabelle's work has also been selected to screen at the Beverly Hills Film Festival, Boston International Kids Film Festival, and the All American High School film festival.
In addition to writing and directing, Isabelle has ample experience in the camera department as a director of photography and camera assistant. She also works as an intimacy coordinator for independent and student productions and plans to continue her intimacy education and training. With a keen interest in exploring women's relationship with sex and sexuality in her own work, Isabelle hopes to use this knowledge in her directing as well.
Currently, Isabelle is excited to finish post production on her feature directorial debut, Bigger Problems, which is slated for release in late 2023 or early 2024, pending distribution. She is also preparing for her work as the director of photography for Amos' Bride, a USC undergraduate thesis. In addition, Isabelle works closely with her professors as a student assistant for two production courses, while maintaining two other jobs as a digital video archivist for the renowned USC Digital Repository and front desk monitor and technician in USC's post-production facilities.
