ISSABELLA ORLANDO IS AN ITALIAN-CANADIAN CREATIVE PRODUCER, FILMMAKER, WRITER, ARTIST, & CONSULTANT BASED IN LONDON. Obsessed with our roots, Issabella brings a background in cultural storytelling, heritage, and the arts to her work across industries.

IN HER CONSULTING PRACTICE, Issabella helps brands to communicate creatively through storytelling, creative direction, multimedia content, and cultural research, insights & strategy. Offering strategic creative vision and hands-on production from inception through production to delivery, her work delivers impactful creative that gleans results for brands across wellness, fashion, beauty, luxury, tech, travel, arts & culture, hospitality, food & beverage, and editorial.

THROUGH HER CREATIVE STUDIO, AETIA, Issabella crafts films, podcasts, campaigns, and creative strategies that connect audiences with creative people, artisanal processes, cultural practice, and living heritage. Her favourite stories to tell are the ones where craft and culture teach us how to live more harmonious, communal, and meaningful lives.

IN HER ARTISTIC PRACTICE, Issabella writes personal essays and makes experimental films blending poetry and moving image. Through a personal lens, her artistic work enquires into how the past shapes and remains tethered to our present lives through mythology, memory, landscape, grief and the supernatural.

Issabella is available to work independently, through her studio, and in collaboration with agencies on worldwide commissions, projects, and other inquiries. Get in touch here.

EDUCATION

MSc Archaeology, University of Oxford
BA Classical Studies, King’s College London

CLIENTS

Monocle, Google Arts & Culture, Puig, Dulwich Picture Gallery, South London Gallery, The Courtauld Gallery, Sir John Soane’s Museum, World Monuments Fund, Visit Jericho, Education First, University of Leiden +++