Isabelle Raynauld | Fellow

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Alum

Writer and Director Isabelle Raynauld, PhD in screenwriting, University of Paris IV, (ODL Fellow 2016-18) is a professor in the cinema and video games program at the University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada and is a Fellow, Visiting Scholar/Filmmaker at the Open Documentary Lab at MIT. She writes and directs fiction and documentary films (Jutra and Gemini awards).  She recently directed a VR film: Poetry in Motion : Re-verse in Harvard Yards with sound artist Halsey Burgund, VR film (360 stereo, ambisonic sound, 4 minutes)  presented at the «Virtually There: Documentary Meets VR» conference at MIT, May 2016. Selected at MIFA and FIFA, the International Art Film Festival, Montreal, March 2017.  She is currently working on an international VR project : A Seat at the Table with Montreal based production company Minority VR. Her book Reading and Writing a Screenplay (is due in 2018 published by Routledge) and the Second Augmented Edition in French (Lire et écrire un scénario) is due in Spring 2018 published by Armand Colin in Paris. She participated to the POV Digital Lab, Hackaton, New-York, N-Y, Fall 2016 with UX Designer Jeff Soyk on the Zeki Muren documentary and bot project by Beyza Boyacioglu. She is a Mentor at the Reality Virtually Hackathon 2017 at the MIT’s Media Lab and Open Doc Lab. Isabelle is also currently in production with her feature documentary Music and the Brain, produced by Oscar winning company Bunbury Films in Montreal and due for broadcast on Radio-Canada in  2018.