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 and received Tacoma’s Best Feature Award in 2021 before Here Films released it in the US in 2022. Isidore’s editing, producing, and writing work has screened on POV, Op-Docs, the Criterion Channel, and Netflix, receiving over 30 awards, Mexican Academy, European Film Academy, and Gotham Award nominations, and IndieWire and New York Times Critic’s Picks. Filmmaker Magazine included him among its “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2020. A graduate of Harvard, the École Normale Supérieure, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Isidore has been a guest artist at UT Austin, 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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