Talent Guide

Isabel Soloaga

  • Discipline:Director, Producer, Writer
  • Program Year:CNN Docuseries Intensive 2021

Bio

Isabel Soloaga is a filmmaker and freelance journalist who places viewers into the shoes of strangers through dynamic, reflexive approaches and vérité. As a humanitarian and scholar in the fields of migration and human rights, she brings over 5 years of international experience to the subjects explored in this docu-series. This is her reflection on the meaning of home and identity, written together with the families it follows as they transition from life in war-torn Afghanistan to their new homes in the U.S.

Current Project

Growing Up In America: Life After the Taliban

Logline

America’s longest war is over. Aaina has not known life without it. After fleeing from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, eight year old Aaina tells her story of growing up in America.