Isabel Castro looks at the camera.
Isabel Castro
Photo courtesy Isabel Castro
Director

Isabel Castro (she/her) is a Mexican-American filmmaker whose work includes USA v Scott (Tribeca 2020, The New Yorker), Emmy-nominated Darlin (Tribeca 2019, NYT OpDocs), and the GLAAD Media award-winning Crossing Over (Univision/Participant Media). Previously, she has worked as a director for the Netflix series Pandemic, as a multimedia journalist for The New York Times, as a Murrow-winning producer at The Marshall Project, and as an Emmy-nominated producer at VICE on HBO. Mija is her feature debut and has received support from Impact Partners, Cinereach, Sundance Institute, Concordia Studio, the SFFILM Catapult Documentary Fellowship, Points North Institute and CNN Films, Firelight Media, and Chicken & Egg Pictures.

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