Isabel Faintych is a filmmaker and documentary editor.

​She completed her BFA in Film and Video at Pratt Institute in 2019. Isabel’s documentaries, Shine (2016) and The Baroness (2018), have played in film festivals around the world, winning awards for Best Short Documentary. 

She has worked on HBO’s The Vow, MGM+’s Amityville: An Origin Story, and Making Marie Antoinette, an upcoming feature documentary produced by Sofia Coppola and directed by Eleanor Coppola. She was an additional editor on You Resemble Me, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival and was executive produced by Spike Lee, Claire Denis, Spike Jonze, Riz Ahmed, and Alma Har’el, now streaming on Amazon. She is a member of the Alliance of Documentary Editors.

She is currently editing a feature documentary about waacking, a 1970s queer dance movement that is now experiencing a resurgence all around the world.

Isabel lives and works out of Queens, New York.