Isabel is a New York-based editor specializing in documentary film. Her work has screened at Sundance, BFI London, NYFF, CPH:DOX and the Berlinale, among many others. She cut Rebeca Huntt’s debut feature, BEBA, which had its world premiere at TIFF and was released by NEON in 2022. Her latest film, Another Body, premiered at SXSW in 2023, where it won the Special Jury Award for Innovation in Storytelling.

Isabel began her career in the edit room on Edet Belzberg’s Watchers of the Sky as an assistant under the mentorship of Karen K. H. Sim, who won the Documentary Editing Award at Sundance for her work on this film. Isabel went on to edit and produce the feature-length documentary Stephanie in the Water about seven-time world champion surfer Stephanie Gilmore. This film premiered at the 2013 Hamptons International Film Festival and was recently ranked among the top surf films of all time by The Inertia.

For three years Isabel served as Head of Production for the London-based company Huck. During this time she produced over 25 short films. While at Huck, she directed the documentary short Nights of Glory, and co-directed two short films with Jamie Brisick—Rhymes With Shove and The Interrogation of Kim Gordon.

Isabel has cut commercial work for Nike, Apple, Google, Vogue and Major League Soccer. She has also worked in the field of contemporary art, helping artists such as Zach Blas, David Byrne and Ryan McGinley to realize multimedia projects for gallery and museum spaces.

Between projects Isabel is directing a documentary about the British utopian group the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift and their quest to save the Western world.

contact: isabelfreeman@gmail.com