ISSABELLA ORLANDO IS AN ITALIAN-CANADIAN FILMMAKER, WRITER, ARTIST, & CONSULTANT BASED IN LONDON. Obsessed with our roots, her work focuses on cultural storytelling around heritage, craft, place, and personal history. Issabella brings a background in the heritage and cultural sectors to the intersection of branded, artistic and cultural spaces.

THROUGH HER CREATIVE STUDIO, AETIA, Issabella crafts films, podcasts, campaigns, writing, 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 CONSULTING PRACTICE, Issabella helps brands to communicate creatively, and meaningfully engage with art, craft, culture, heritage, and the communities invested in them, through strategic insight, creative storytelling, and cultural partnerships. Offering strategic insight, bespoke storytelling, and experience design, her work connects audiences to the people, processes, and histories that shape culture and creative practice.

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.