Isara Krieger

Through her work Isara aims to draw attention to the effects of structural injustice on historically marginalized & ignored communities in the U.S.

Isara is currently part of Swiftwater Film’s editorial team on their Redford Center supported feature documentary Undamming Klamath, which tells the story of the decades-long, Indigenous-led fight to remove four hydraulic dams on the Klamath River in Northern California and undergo the world's largest river restoration project in history.

For over five years Isara was an on-call producer for KQED Arts (SF Bay Area PBS/NPR affiliate), where she produced, shot and edited short documentaries about local artists and activists that reached a nationwide audience. She was part of the founding team of their locally loved, award-winning web series If Cities Could Dance–in 2022, her directorial debut episode Disability Arts Ensemble Takes Access & Dance to New Heights was KQED's first entirely accessible online video, which was was nominated for a NorCal Regional Emmy® Award and received a Society of Professional Journalists Excellence in Journalism award.

Isara grew up in a neighborhood of Boston, where her first feature documentary, The Highest Standard, is based. The film premiered as the opening night film at Boston's GlobeDocs Film Festival, and received the Audience Award at the Roxbury International Film Festival held at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

She holds a masters degree in Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was awarded a Documentary Fellowship. Her background in journalism, psychology, social justice and visual art informs her worldview. She traces her sense of awe back to the childhood discovery of the piney, salty smell of coastal Maine.