Isabelle Stead
Film director, producer, activist
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Isabelle Stead (born 8 October in Leeds, United Kingdom)[citation needed] is a British film director, producer and activist.
In 2008, Stead became a Sundance fellow and alumni.[1]
In 2010 Stead was selected by the British Council as the UK Producer on the Move for Cannes International Film Festival.[2] Stead produced Son of Babylon; the film screened at Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals and received the Amnesty and Peace Prize, followed by a British Independent Film Award.[3] The film was selected as Iraq's official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards.
In 2011 Stead produced a documentary In My Mother's Arms; it premièred at the Toronto International Film Festival.[4] The film went on to win the Asia Pacific Academy Award for Best Documentary.
In 2012 Stead became a member of the Asia Pacific Motion Picture Academy of the Arts.[5]
Humanitarian work
In 2010 Stead set up the 'Iraq's missing' campaign and began lobbying for the DNA testing of mass graves in Iraq.[6]
Filmography
- 2013 - In the Sands of Babylon
- 2011 - In My Mother's Arms
- 2010 - Kosher
- 2009 - Son of Babylon
- 2005 - Ahlaam
Awards
- 2010 British Independent Film Award – The Raindance Maverick Award for In the Sands of Babylon[3]
- 2010 Amnesty International Film Award at the Berlin International Film Festival for In the Sands of Babylon[3]
- 2010 Peace Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival for In the Sands of Babylon[3]
- 2012 Asia Pacific Screen Award for In My Mother’s Arms[7]
- 2013 Best Film from Arab World for In the Sands of Babylon - Abu Dhabi Film Festival
