1. While Isabella was filming her award-winning short 'THEOPHANY' in New York City, the church where the movie was filmed threatened her crew to leave the church before shooting the last frame because they claimed that the film wasn't gonna be "good enough" for the film industry, but Isabella filmed it anyway and now the short is recognized globally as one of the best shorts with 'NO DIALOGUE' this year.
2. Isabella Gonzales was trained at New York Film Academy by the famous 'Terence Donnellan'. Terence Donnellan is a producer, director, writer, and editor for film and television with 2 Emmy nominations for his documentary films. His third documentary, Artists in NYC, will begin national broadcasts on PBS / public television in 2023. He has produced, directed, and written numerous film, television, and video projects, which have been shown at film festivals, on television, and through Amazon Prime, iTunes, YouTube, Vimeo, Vudu, Tubi, Plex, and other international streaming platforms.
3. 'THEOPHANY' was chosen to be a film without dialogue so that the audience could construct their own ideology on what is actually happening during the film. Instead of spoonfeeding her audience, Isabella likes to tells a visual story through color theory and very complex long lasting frames, instead of 5 minute long back to back conversations.
4. While working at NYFA for the summer, Isabella the director of 'THEOPHANY' said that she only had 2 days to think about the plot of 'THEOPHANY' before the day of filming. Originally the short was gonna be a horror film about a boy being haunted by a girl that claims to be a nun through the streets of New York City. However, after hearing how her crew deals with the "Idea of God" worldview daily. Isabella got inspired and scratched her original plot and shot list and decided to rewrite the short (5 hours) before filming.
5. When shooting the dorm scene in her last film 'THE MUSE AND HER LENTO', her lead actresses 'Delina and Kemba C. Rose' surprisingly got extremely emotional during the scene and let out real tears, which made the film look very realistic and turned out better than Isabella expected.
6. While shooting the last scene for 'THE MUSE AND HER LENTO', Isabella directed her main actress 'Delina' to fake throw her phone so it looks realistic but to also avoid damaging her phone. When the camera starts rolling, Delina Yonas (Francesca) surprisingly throws her phone in The Battery Park Pier accidentally. As a result, Matthew Vermette (The Director of Photography on the film) jumps near the water immediately to retrieve the phone before it's damaged.
7. While shooting the last frame for 'THE MUSE AND HER LENTO' at Battery Park Pier, Isabella tells her main actresses 'Delina Yonas and Kemba C. Rose' that the last frame will entirely be improvised, telling her actresses to do whatever feels natural to their characters (Francesca and The Violinist).
8. Isabella directs and holds the camera for the entire last sequence of 'THE MUSE AND HER LENTO'.
