Biography

Isabella Karhu is an award-winning filmmaker who studied filmmaking at the LAB Institute of Design and Fine Arts with an emphasis on directing. Her graduation film Sons (2014) did well at international festivals, also being awarded the Student Award at Tampere Film Festival and the Audience Award at Miami International Short Film Festival. After her graduation, she co-founded the film production company Danish Bear Productions with her fellow colleague Juho-Pekka Tanskanen in 2015. Their works have been selected to film festivals such as Sundance, CPH:DOX, Beldocs, FIPADOC, Zurich FF, Thessaloniki DF, Göteborg FF, Docville, Crossing Europe and Maine IFF.

Isabella is a member of the Finnish Documentary Guild and an alumna of Ji.Hlava Emerging Producers, Rotterdam Lab, Doc Forward, Kehittämö, DocPoint Impact and Ice & Fire Docs, i.a.

Nowadays, she works as a writer, director, and producer with several up-and-coming projects in the works.
- IMDb mini biography by: Isabella Karhu