Isidore Bethel is an educator and filmmaker whose work has screened at Cannes, SXSW, the Berlinale, and Sundance London. His directorial debut LIAM received the Paris LGBTQ+ Film Festival’s Jury Prize in 2018 and is streaming on Tënk. His second film as director ACTS OF LOVE premiered at Hot Docs in 2021, featured among MovieWeb's best LGBTQ films of the year, and released in the US and France via Here Films and Amazon Prime. Isidore’s editing, producing, and writing work has screened on POV, Op-Docs, the Criterion Channel, and Netflix, receiving over 40 awards, Mexican Academy, European Film Academy, Independent Spirit, and Gotham Award nominations, and IndieWire, Vimeo Staff, and New York Times Critic’s Picks. Filmmaker Magazine included him among its “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2020; he was among DOC NYC's "40 Under 40" in 2023. A graduate of Harvard, the École Normale Supérieure, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Isidore has been a guest artist at Stanford, Oxford, and Yale. He has mentored filmmakers through programs such as the Aristoteles Workshop in Romania, Stone Soup’s filmmaking classes for preteens, and Doc Amazonie Caraïbe in French Guiana. He is a US and French citizen and has taught at France’s national film school La Fémis, Sarah Lawrence College, and Parsons in Paris.
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