Isaías Badilla
Actor
Isaías Badilla is a Costa Rican-American actor and filmmaker. He trained at the Taller Nacional de Teatro in Costa Rica and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. As an actor, he has appeared in films that have screened at international festivals including the Tribeca Festival (world premiere), the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (Short Film Market Picks), the Festival de Málaga, the Austin Film Festival, and the Miami Film Festival, where the film received the Best International Short Film award, among others. His theatre credits include work with the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Teatro LATEA, The Tank, and the American Theater of Actors. Internationally, he appeared as Connor Murphy in Querido Evan (Dear Evan Hansen). In 2024, he co-founded Purple Duck LLC, an independent production company through which he develops, writes, and directs film projects, including a recent 16mm piece exploring the experiences of immigrant artists in New York City.
Movies8
- Movie
Two exes run into each other after a year, one of them decides if they’re going to be strangers or not.
- MovieDrama
Two friends see their dream of making music together complicated when their guitar is stolen, forcing them to search the city to get it back.
Avenida Segunda
Second Avenue
MovieTwo classmates decide to make a short film about drugs to enter their school’s Arts Festival; however, things don’t go as they planned.
Movie1.0DramaIn the heart of Corona, Queens, two Ecuadorian siblings are placed at odds with each other when one reveals a sudden urge to leave their home.
Ñaños
2022 · 2 votes
MovieIn a basement-turned boy cave, a band rehearsal spirals into chaos as creative tensions and personal drama push four teenage musicians to the brink.
B for Boys
2026
- MovieThriller
The Act of Seeing is a multi-layered experiment in narrative storytelling. Five vignettes are shown from three different perspectives - Each perspective is visually interpreted in a stage of the Cosmogonic Cycle.
Movie5.0ComedyDramaIt is the year 2025, and Alejandro tells his grandson Josue a story from a book that he is reading about a singer and a dancer who fell in love in 1985, but love represents much more than only sharing life together.
Un Regalo Esencial
2018 · 2 votes
MovieComedyRomanceWhen Ana's childhood friend dies she attempts to skip the five stages of grief with the help of her best friends, ex-boyfriends and naked Twister.
Good Mourning
2023