Son of Babylon
Producer
Amnesty International Film Prize and Peace Film Award, Berlinale; Raindance Award, BIFA.
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SCREENWRITER · DIRECTOR · PRODUCER
ISABELLE
STEAD
Emotionally charged stories.
Bold social themes. Dark humour.
A distinctive, female-centred voice.
Recognition &
memberships
BIFA
Raindance Award · Son of Babylon
Producer on the Move
UK selection · EFP at Cannes
Sundance & EAVE
Alumna
WGGB
Member
Selected work
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The Journey
Co-writer & producer
Selected for Cannes Cinéfondation’s L’Atelier; premiered at Toronto and screened at BFI London Film Festival.
In My Mother’s Arms
Producer
Feature documentary; premiered at IDFA.
IN DEVELOPMENT
The Change
Psychological body-horror
A female-centred exploration of menopause, identity and survival.
Bare
Darkly comic social thriller
Motherhood, autonomy and online exploitation.
Bloody Women
Television drama
Female friendship, justice and collective rebellion.
ABOUT ISABELLE
Bold stories.
Uncompromising voices.
Isabelle is a BIFA-winning writer, director, producer and author based in Yorkshire. Her work brings emotional honesty, dark humour and genre to stories about women, across feature film, television and publishing.
She began her career as a script reader and assistant at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. Over an international career spanning twenty years, she has developed and produced fiction and documentary with filmmakers from around the world.
Her credits include Son of Babylon, Iraq’s official Academy Awards submission, The Journey and In My Mother’s Arms. Her work also includes Irkalla: Gilgamesh’s Dream, which premiered at Locarno and screened at Toronto.
Her projects have received support and recognition from the BFI, Sundance Institute, British Council and BBC Writersroom. Alongside her screen work, she is writing a memoir and developing books that carry her candid, female-centred voice onto the page.
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