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Isidore Bethel

Isidore Bethel is a French-American filmmaker who was among Filmmaker's "25 New Faces of Independent Film" in 2020 and DOC NYC's "40 Under 40" in 2023.[4][5] The films he edits, directs, and produces use filmmaking to make sense of overwhelming experiences and touch on recurrent themes of displacement, sexuality, aging, trauma, grief, therapy, and art-making.[6] 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.[7][8] His second film, Acts of Love, which French actor Francis Leplay co-directed, premiered at Hot Docs, received the Tacoma Film Festival's Best Feature Award, and appeared on MovieWeb's list of the top LGBTQ+ films of 2021.[9][10][11]

Isidore Bethel
Born
Atlanta, United States
CitizenshipUnited States
France
EducationHarvard
École Normale Supérieure
SAIC
Occupations
  • filmmaker
  • professor
Years active2011–present
WorksActs of Love
What We Leave Behind
Of Men and War
HonorsFilmmaker's 25 New Faces[1]
Chéries-Chéris Jury Prize[2]
DOC NYC "40 Under 40"[3]

Films he has edited have screened at Cannes, SXSW, and the Berlinale, in museums such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Beirut Art Center, and the Pompidou Center, and on broadcast platforms such as POV, The New York Times' Op-Docs, and Netflix.[12][13][14][15] He has worked in France, Mexico, and the United States with directors such as Dominique Cabrera, Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, Juan Pablo González, Laurent Bécue-Renard, Juan Manuel Sepúlveda, Arturo González Villaseñor, Daniel Hymanson, and Iliana Sosa.[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] He has also collaborated with filmmakers in Lebanon, the United Kingdom, Ethiopia, India, and Turkey.[24][25][26][27][28] He acts as a producer on many of the films that he edits, which have received support from the Sundance Institute, the Ford Foundation, Field of Vision, the CNC in France, and Mexico's IMCINE and FONCA funds.[29][30][31][32][33] Critics have characterized his editing as demonstrative of "admirable restraint," "tender," "astute," and "elegant."[34][35][36][37]

A graduate of Harvard University, the École Normale Supérieure, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Bethel has received funding 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, the Tribeca Film Institute, the Villa Medici, the Gotham, Film Independent, the Logan Nonfiction Program, and Eurodoc.[38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50] He has taught at Stone Soup's filmmaking workshop, Sundance's Art of Editing fellowship, Sarah Lawrence College's Paris campus, La Fémis, and Parsons Paris.[51][52][53][54]

Filmography

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Feature films

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Year Title Editor Director Producer Writer Notes
2013 Grandir Yes No No No Directed by Dominique Cabrera. ACID Cannes.[55]
2014 Of Men and War Yes No Yes No Credited as associate producer. Directed by Laurent Bécue-Renard. Cannes Film Festival.
2016 La Balada del Oppenheimer Park Yes No Yes No Directed by Juan Manuel Sepúlveda. Best Documentary nominee at the Mexican Academy Awards.[56]
2018 Caballerango Yes No No No Directed by Juan Pablo González. IDFA.[57]
2018 Liam No Yes Yes Yes Jury Prize in the Documentary section of the Paris LGBTQ+ Film Festival.
2020 So Late So Soon Yes No Yes No Credited as associate producer. Directed by Daniel Hymanson. True/False.[58]
2021 Acts of Love No Yes Yes Yes Co-directed with Francis Leplay. Hot Docs.
2022 What We Leave Behind Yes No Yes Yes Directed by Iliana Sosa. Louis Black Lone Star and Fandor New Voices Awards at SXSW.[59]
2023 Hummingbirds Yes No Yes No Credited as co-producer. Directed by Silvia Del Carmen Castaños and Estefanía Contreras. Generation 14plus Grand Prize at the Berlinale.[60]
2023 The Taste of Mango Yes No No No Directed by Chloe Abrahams. BFI London Audience Award, BIFA for Best Debut Director.[61][62]

Short films

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Year Title Editor Director Producer Writer Notes
2011 "Someone I Love or Someone Who I Want to Be" Yes Yes Yes Yes Harvard Hoopes Prize.[63]
2013 "Goat Milk" Yes No No No Directed by Dominique Cabrera. Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival.[64]
2016 "We Eat the Earth/The Earth Eats Us" Yes No Yes No Credited as associate producer. Directed by Lucy Pawlak. Athens Digital Arts Festival.[65]
2016 "We Died and Here We Are" Yes No Yes No Directed by Mohamad Kanaan. Ashkal Alwan's Video Works 2016 at the Beirut Art Center.[66]
2021 "Some Kind of Intimacy" Yes No Yes Yes Directed by Toby Bull. Sundance London.[67]
2022 "Blue Room" Yes No Yes No Credited as associate producer. Directed by Merete Mueller. AFI Fest.[68]
2022 "Suddenly TV" Yes No No No Credited as consulting editor. Directed by Roopa Gogineni. Documentary Short Special Jury Award at SXSW.[69]

References

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  8. ^ "Chéries-Chéris : Grand Prix pour " Les Moissonneurs " et deux films brésiliens au palmarès". Komitid. 27 November 2018. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
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