- Nickname
- Kiwenski
- Isis Kiwen is a Mexican ethnographic filmmaker and a marketing communications specialist of Lebanese, Chinese, British and Cuban descent. Her professional career began on the production of The Ghost Writer (2010). With her own company, This Is2 Transcendental Ad. Co., she has generated Eleuterio El Heroe (2012), presented at the Seventh World Water Forum in Korea, The Tree of Numbers (2015), selection for Cannes Short Film Corner 2015 and The Drawing of Language (2014), preselected to the Oscars. In 2022 Kiwen received recognition from the Chihuahua State Congress, Secretary of Culture and Secretary of Tourism as an artist who has generated an impact in the culture and people of Chihuahua, Mexico throughout her career in the field of cinema. According to the Congress of the State of Chihuahua, México, "The talented filmmaker from Cuauhtémoc has shown the world the cultural environment of Chihuahua, México in a brutally realistic way and at the same time in a very inspirational way, since she generates reflection and awareness through her art about the importance of recognizing ourselves in the other."- IMDb Mini Biography By: SecuenciaFi [mx]
- Filmmaking that impacts, and is used by, people.
- One of her mentors, while living in Virginia, was acclaimed German Director Ula Stöckl.
- She was taught acting by writer/actress Joann Rose Leonard, pupil of Marcel Marceau and mother of the actor Joshua Leonard which stared in The Blair Witch Project (1999) a film advised by Mary C. Johnson, also mentor to Isis Kiwen.
- Series Director for Televisión Española (Spanish Television) Rafael Herrero was one of her television instructors while living in Spain.
- While filming The Ghost Writer (2010) Isis and a co-worker attended a knock on the door of a person delivering a package of appreciation sent by Quentin Tarantino to the director of The Ghost Writer (2010).
- Isis Kiwen is searched by Mexican news agency Grupo Reforma to give an opinion of the outcome of The Ghost Writer (2010) at the 2010 Berlinale film festival and predicts a bear for its director.
- So too, then, do cities like Chihuahua deserve and need politicians, architects, artists, that have goals beyond the economic wealth their creations will gather. But, most importantly, we need to unite in a philosophy; in a common ideal that will allow all of us to grow physically, spiritually, architecturally, artistically and economically contempt as a city; a philosophy that can only be envisioned by the powers of relentless creativity spurring on in allegorical waves of stability.
- [on The Tree of Numbers (2015)] ...every film I make takes me on a journey of self discovery and understanding of humankind."
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