2021

Cusp

ABOUT

In a small military town in Texas, three wild-spirited teenage girls live out a fever-dream summer. Through their characters, photographers and debut filmmakers Parker Hill and Isabel Bethencourt share a fascinating glimpse into authentic American girlhood, when the strictures of adolescence clash with the growing desire for personal agency.

Program Feature
Section Spotlight
Runtime 1:23
Country United States
Website cuspthefilm.com

Isabel Bethencourt is a filmmaker in New York. She graduated from NYU’s Gallatin School where she studied cultural anthropology and documentary film. Her debut feature documentary CUSP premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2021 and won the Special Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker. CUSP was nominated for Best Cinematography by the American Society of Cinematographers, the IDA Awards, and the Cinema Eye Honors. Isabel’s work as a director and cinematographer has been published by the Wall Street Journal, ESPN, GQ, and Teen Vogue. She was named by the Hollywood Reporter as one of the “Next Big Things: 10 Documentary Filmmakers Speaking Truth to Power." Her latest film, EMBODIED, premiered at the 2023 Tribeca X festival.

Parker Hill is a New York City–based writer-director who graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Her thesis film, One Good Pitch, premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival. Her short films Homing In and Sanderson to Brackettville have screened at BFI London Film Festival and online as a Vimeo Staff Pick, respectively. Cusp is her debut feature documentary.

CREDITS

Director
Parker Hill
Isabel Bethencourt
Producer
Parker Hill
Isabel Bethencourt
Zachary Kislevitz
Editor
Parker Hill
Fiona Otway
Editor
Parker Hill

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