- 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.
- Pablo Cruz, founding partner and producer of Canana [mx], was the first person to give her a job in Mexico after arriving from Germany in 2009.
- Meets Saskia Hoffmann in Potsdam, in 2008, and in 2013 premiers her short film "Vamos Caballeros (2010)", in México, which has original music by Mexican composer Hector Marroquin.
- Born in Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, México but grew up in East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.
- Influenced by Jean Cocteau, Ladislao Vajda, Stanley Kubrick, Víctor Erice, Yuri Norstein and Chuchelo (1984).
- Cousin of an American politician from Nevada, Ruben Kihuen.
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