Set in a small military town in Texas,&nbsp;Cusp&nbsp;chases three wild-spirited teenage girls as they live out a fever-dream summer, when the strictures of adolescence clash with the growing desire for personal agency. Shot in vérité style,&nbsp;Cusp&nbsp;captures authentic moments of female friendship while examining what it means to grow up in a culture of toxic masculinity. Though the girls’ experiences are unique to their upbringings,&nbsp;Cusp&nbsp;is also a strikingly universal, stirring coming-of-age tale.

Cusp

<h3><img src="https://www.documentary.org/images/programs/screenings/2021/IDA_Documentary_Screening_Series_CUSP_Parker_Hill.jpg" style="cursor: default; width: 200px; height: 200px; float: left; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px;">Parker Hill, Director/Cinematographer/Editor</h3>Hill is a New York City–based writer-director who graduated from New York University's Tisch&nbsp;School of the Arts. Her thesis film,&nbsp;One Good Pitch, premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film&nbsp;Festival. Her short films&nbsp;Homing In&nbsp;and&nbsp;Sanderson to Brackettville&nbsp;have screened at BFI London&nbsp;Film Festival and online as a Vimeo Staff Pick, respectively.&nbsp;Cusp&nbsp;is her debut feature&nbsp;documentary, which premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and went on to win the&nbsp;Special Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker. She was named by the&nbsp;Hollywood Reporter&nbsp;as&nbsp;one of the “Next Big Thing: 10 Documentary Filmmakers Speaking Truth to Power.” Parker is&nbsp;currently in development on her first narrative feature.<h3> </h3><h3><img src="https://www.documentary.org/images/programs/screenings/2021/IDA_Documentary_Screening_Series_CUSP_Isabel_Bethencourt.jpg" style="cursor: default; width: 200px; height: 200px; float: right; padding-left: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px;">Isabel&nbsp;Bethencourt,&nbsp;Director/Cinematographer</h3>Bethencourt is a filmmaker from a beach near Los Angeles, California. She graduated from&nbsp;NYU’s Gallatin School where she studied cultural anthropology and documentary film. Her work&nbsp;as a director and cinematographer has been published by the&nbsp;Wall Street Journal,&nbsp;ESPN,&nbsp;GQ,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Teen Vogue.&nbsp;Cusp&nbsp;is her debut feature documentary, which premiered at the Sundance&nbsp;Film Festival in 2021 and went on to win the Special Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker. She&nbsp;was named by the&nbsp;Hollywood Reporter&nbsp;as one of the “Next Big Things: 10 Documentary&nbsp;Filmmakers Speaking Truth to Power,” and was an advisor at the 2021 Southern Producers Lab&nbsp;with the New Orleans Film Society.

Cusp Moderated Conversation with Filmmaker

This Q&A features director, cinematographer and editor Parker Hill and director and cinematographer Isabel Bethencourt, moderated by Alissa Wilkinson, Film Critic and Culture Reporter at Vox.

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