Isidore Bethel is a French-American filmmaker whom Filmmaker named one
of the "25 New Faces of Independent Film" in 2020. His first feature
film as director, Liam, premiered at the Boston LGBT Film Festival in
2018 and received the Jury Prize in the Documentary section of the
Paris LGBTQ+ Film Festival. He edited and associate produced Of Men
and War, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, won the VPRO
Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary at the International
Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, received a Best Documentary
nomination at the European Film Awards, and screened at the Museum of
Modern Art's Documentary Fortnight. He also edited Dominique Cabrera's
Grandir, which received the Cinéma du réel's Potemkine Prize, edited
and produced Juan Manuel Sepúlveda's La Balada del Oppenheimer Park,
a Best Documentary nominee at the 59th Ariel Awards, and has worked
with Jean-Xavier de Lestrade. Critics have characterized his editing
as demonstrative of "admirable restraint," "Wiseman-esque," and
"elegant."A graduate of Harvard University, the École Normale
Supérieure, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Bethel
has received grants from the Institut Français, France's
Île-de-France region, the Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation, and the
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation as well as support from Berlinale Talents,
IFP, Film Independent, and Eurodoc. He has taught film at Sarah
Lawrence College in Paris and at Parsons Paris.
of the "25 New Faces of Independent Film" in 2020. His first feature
film as director, Liam, premiered at the Boston LGBT Film Festival in
2018 and received the Jury Prize in the Documentary section of the
Paris LGBTQ+ Film Festival. He edited and associate produced Of Men
and War, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, won the VPRO
Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary at the International
Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, received a Best Documentary
nomination at the European Film Awards, and screened at the Museum of
Modern Art's Documentary Fortnight. He also edited Dominique Cabrera's
Grandir, which received the Cinéma du réel's Potemkine Prize, edited
and produced Juan Manuel Sepúlveda's La Balada del Oppenheimer Park,
a Best Documentary nominee at the 59th Ariel Awards, and has worked
with Jean-Xavier de Lestrade. Critics have characterized his editing
as demonstrative of "admirable restraint," "Wiseman-esque," and
"elegant."A graduate of Harvard University, the École Normale
Supérieure, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Bethel
has received grants from the Institut Français, France's
Île-de-France region, the Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation, and the
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation as well as support from Berlinale Talents,
IFP, Film Independent, and Eurodoc. He has taught film at Sarah
Lawrence College in Paris and at Parsons Paris.
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