Isabella Andronos
Art
Biography
Isabella is a production designer, screenwriter, and director based in Sydney, Australia. With a background in conceptual art, she has designed over 80 productions, earning ten Australian Production Design Guild nominations and a win for Emerging Design for "The Greeks" (2014). Her notable works include "Too Many Ethnics" (2023), which won Best Production Design at the Made in the West Film Festival, and "All Silent Dogs" (2022), nominated for Best Production Design at the APDG Awards. Isabella's feature film "The Greenhouse" (2021) is on Netflix, and her short "Furlough" (2021) premiered at Flickerfest. As a writer-director, her film "Under the Water" (2023) won Best Film By A Female Filmmaker at the Setting Sun Film Festival and Best Student Film at The Bay International Film Festival. She is committed to gender equity and diversity, integrating these values into her work and teaching. Isabella holds a Master of Arts in Directing from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School and a Bachelor of Dramatic Art in Design from the National Institute of Dramatic Art.
Known For
A comedy series offering a candid look into the lives of three 20-something Hijabis living their best lives in Australia as they endure the unseen everyday culture clash between their faith and desire.
Halal Gurls
A mysterious wanderer drifts through an Australian outback mining town until an unexpected connection with a motel maid leaves him to confronting his own identity.
Stranger
A young woman is faced with a choice: give up her ability to transform into a dog or face the familial and societal consequences of keeping it.
All Silent Dogs
The Greenhouse is a magic-realist drama that centres on the eldest child of two women, Beth, who discovers a portal into the past on their family property. On the cusp of her widowed mother Ruth's sixtieth birthday and the return of her dysfunctional siblings Drew, Doonie and Raf, Beth is swept away by visions of their idyllic childhood and re-lives the moments that defined her adolescence. Despite Ruth's warnings, and as real-world tensions grow between the siblings, Beth becomes dependant on the greenhouse, soon realising it isn't the paradise she believed it to be.
The Greenhouse
Divorced, lonely and inept with the web, a 50-year-old man decides to try his hand at finding love online – with spectacularly catastrophic results.
Glen
Two best friends, Mark and Rem, embark on a road trip and find their friendship might be evolving into something else.
Homo
In present-day Western Sydney, a devoted carer struggles with his own limitations while caring for his brother with Down syndrome and cerebral palsy, as news of a family tragedy tied to Middle Eastern conflict tests their bond.
Dependent
1984. Small town USA. 30 women are missing. Troubled by a recurring nightmare, Ellen is determined to save the woman she's dreamt about; a woman she's yet to meet.
Green River: Part One
A true story of shipwreck, murder and ruin.
Euxine
The epic quest of three best friends surviving trials of racism, love and friendship in the long line to get into an exclusive nightclub.
Too Many Ethnics
When an eleven-year-old girl is confronted with misogynistic taunts and violence from the boys in her town, a series of strange happenings lead to her revisit a storybook about the sirens of the sea. Inspired by these creatures, she finds the power in herself to push back.
Under the Water
Small town USA. 40 women are dead. Troubled by the death of her close friend, Rebecca’s grief quickly manifests into a morbid series of encounters and uninvited guests.