Cusp
Logline
In a Texas military town, three teenage girls confront the dark corners of adolescence at the end of a fever dream summer.
Parker Hill
Director
Parker is a NYC based writer/director who graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her thesis film, ONE GOOD PITCH, premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival. She co-wrote and produced the short films, BANDITO (Tribeca 2015) and WHERE THERE’S SMOKE (Tribeca 2017). Her short film HOMING IN screened at BFI London Film Festival 2017 and at MoMA with Future of Film is Female and was released online with Short of the Week. Her short documentary starring Jason Lee - SANDERSON TO BRACKETTVILLE - premiered online as a Vimeo Staff pick. Parker currently directs commercials and music videos. As a photographer, Parker’s work has been featured on Kodak’s podcast The Kodakery, and she published her first photo book this year: The Doctor’s House. CUSP is Parker's feature documentary debut, and the film was recently awarded a grant from NYU’s Richard Vague Production Fund and participated in the TFI / A&E IndieFilms Storylab.
Isabel Bethencourt
Director
Isabel is a cinematographer and director from a beach near Los Angeles, California. She studied cultural anthropology, cinematography, and documentary film at NYU’s Gallatin School, where her final colloquium questioned what it means to tell “true” stories. She was awarded for Craft in Cinematography at the First Run Film Festival by Tisch School of the Arts and shot a short documentary, GROUNDED (2016), that premiered at the Margaret Meade Film Festival. Her work as a director and cinematographer has been published by The Wall Street Journal, GQ, Teen Vogue, and the Special Olympics of New Jersey.
Zachary Kislevitz
Producer
Zachary is an independent producer based in Los Angeles. His most recent film, PORT AUTHORITY, executive produced by Martin Scorsese, starring DUNKIRK breakout Fionn Whitehead, premiered in Certain Regard at Cannes 2019 to rave reviews and made history at the festival as the first film to feature a trans woman of color in a leading role, played by newcomer Leyna Bloom. Among his other film credits include Archer Gray's SXSW 2017 Jury Prize Winner, THE STRANGE ONES, co-directed by Sundance Fellows Lauren Wolkstein and Christopher Radcliff, art-house horror, THE BEACH HOUSE, which premiered at Sitges 2019 and was acquired by AMC Shudder, as well as the animated short doc THE SHAWL, directed by Sara Kiener, which premiered at Sundance 2020 and is being developed into a series. Zachary is a 2018 NYFF Artist Academy Participant and graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts.