"The Colors and Textures of Being a Teenage Girl": Director/Cinematographers Parker Hill and Isabel Bettencourt on Cusp

Parker Hill and Isabel Bettencourt's Cusp embeds itself with a trio of teenage girls, all sustaining best friends, over the course of a long, alcohol-sodden rural Texas summer. Relationships come and go, but cycles of systemic sexual abuse and misogyny structure the lives of its indefatigable protagonists. As photographers, Hill and Bettencourt speak to acting as their own cinematographers, lighting from the Texas sun and capturing the textures of teen girl life. Filmmaker: How and why did you w...