Isara K.

About

Isara is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and freelance director of photography and editor based in Oakland, CA. Her verité cinematography is noted for demonstrating the trust she earns with her subjects and her ability to considerately perceive and represent complex truths at the heart of each story. As a Video Producer for KQED Arts (PBS/NPR affiliate in the SF Bay Area) Isara produced, edited and shot a dozen mini-docs for the web reaching a nationwide audience. She produced and edited the Portland episode of the pilot season of KQED Art’s Webby Award-winning web series If Cities Could Dance, which highlights dancers around the country and the social issues they address with their art. She shot for KQED’s Regional Emmy-winning video A Border Wall of Piñatas Brings a Community Together. Her work has also appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle, CrossCut Seattle, EdSource and The Grotto Network. She has been involved in feature documentaries on Netflix, CNN, and MSNBC. Isara has directed, shot and edited short documentaries in the San Francisco Bay Area for the East Bay AIDS Center; Women Organized Against Life-Threatening Disease (WORLD), a grass-roots Oakland org helping unhoused women understand and wean off opioid abuse; and for the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts, the only public high school in the US with a World Art curriculum. She holds a masters degree in Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was selected as a Documentary Fellow. She grew up in a neighborhood of Boston, MA.

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Video Editor - News

News Shooter / Video Journalist

Documentary DP