About StoryNerve
StoryNerve was built on a simple belief. The best stories don't play it safe. They crackle with life, shaped by courage, curiosity, and the nerve to tell the truth from the inside out.
Our Ethos
StoryNerve is an inclusive and expansive creative space where clarity emerges, vision and voice deepen, and stories are allowed to become fully themselves.
We thrive on diversity of voice, culture, identity, and lived experience. Because when storytelling holds more specificity and truth, it expands. It evolves. It becomes capable of moving us.
At its heart, this work is about liberation. Freeing ourselves from inherited scripts, narrow expectations, and the external pressures that flatten creative expression. It's a return to instinct, to presence, and to stories that resonate because they are alive.
“This is a creative development space for people who want to go deeper.
To strengthen their unique voice.
To make work rooted in honesty, risk, and emotional presence.”
Isabel Gomez-Moriana:
Founder of StoryNerve
For more than two decades, Isabel Gomez-Moriana has worked alongside writers, directors, and producers to uncover the pulse of their stories, the nerve that gives them life, and help them follow it with clarity, courage, and purpose. Her work centres on elevating distinct creative voices and championing stories that move us.
Isabel founded StoryNerve as a quiet rebellion against safe notes, trend-chasing, and stories stripped of the very nerve that makes them alive.
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Isabel's career spans studio systems, independent production, and non-profit institutions. Three worlds that share a single through-line: stories that demand to be told.
As Director of Development at eOne/Lionsgate Canada for seven years, she helped shape a slate of premium scripted series for the global market, collaborating with partners including LuckyChap (Margot Robbie), Pastel (Barry Jenkins), Tiny Pyro (Marti Noxon), and Freckle Films (Jessica Chastain). Her work focused on adapting award-winning novels and bold literary voices, including Margaret Atwood, Linwood Barclay, Robyn Carr, and Jen Agg.
Previously, Isabel spent nine years at the Canadian Film Centre, where she oversaw development, production, and post on more than 300 projects and led major initiatives with the Tribeca Film Institute, NBC Universal, the National Film Board, Telefilm Canada, and the Toronto International Film Festival. Projects she supported include Rhymes for Young Ghouls, Jean of the Joneses, Mary Goes Round, Closet Monster, and the Oscar-nominated To Kill a Tiger.
Isabel holds a BFA and MFA in Theatre and a Global MBA. A CFC Producer alumna, she has produced multiple shorts, co-wrote and co-hosted a Gemini-nominated series, and co-designed the Future of Film initiative with Ted Hope in partnership with Fandor. She also writes Rewilding, a Substack exploring the wild edges of creativity, instinct, and reimagined selfhood, and currently serves as Chair of the Regent Theatre Foundation, an independent cinema and creative hub in Prince Edward County.Raised in a multilingual, multicultural household in Montreal, Isabel has always believed story is how we understand each other and ourselves. Through StoryNerve, she supports creators and leaders in trusting their voice and crafting narratives that resonate from the inside out.