Isabel is a New York-based editor specializing in documentary film. Her work has screened at Sundance, New York Film Festival, CPH:DOX, MoMA and the Berlinale. She cut the critically-acclaimed BEBA, which had its world premiere at TIFF and was acquired by NEON. Her work on Another Body premiered at SXSW, where it won the Special Jury Award for Innovation in Storytelling. Another Body was nominated for a BIFA and an Emmy Award. Most recently she cut the Story Syndicate sports documentary Rapinoe. The film has been selected as the opening night feature at TIFF in 2026.

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 the feature-length documentary Stephanie in the Water about seven-time world champion surfer Stephanie Gilmore, which premiered at the 2013 Hamptons International Film Festival.

For three years Isabel served as Head of Production for the London-based company Huck. During this time she produced over 25 short films, and directed the documentary short Nights of Glory, which was selected by BFI Flare in 2018. She also co-directed two short films with Jamie Brisick—Rhymes With Shove and The Interrogation of Kim Gordon.

Isabel has often worked in the field of contemporary art, helping artists such as David Byrne, Ryan McGinley, Zach Blas and Smriti Keshari to realize projects for gallery and museum spaces.

On the side, over the years, Isabel is also directing a film about the British utopian group the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift and their failed quest to save the Western world.

contact: isabelfreeman@gmail.com