Isidore Bethel
Isidore Bethel (2021) is a French American filmmaker. His directorial debut “Liam” received the Paris LGBTQ+ Film Festival’s Jury Prize in 2018. His second feature, “Acts of Love,” premiered at Hot Docs in 2021. Filmmaker Magazine included Isidore among its “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2020. Support for films he’s edited and produced has come from the Sundance Institute, Tribeca Film Institute, Ford Foundation and France’s CNC and Mexico’s IMCINE film boards.
A graduate of Harvard, the École Normale Supérieure and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Isidore has mentored filmmakers through programs such as the Aristoteles Workshop in Romania, UnionDocs in New York, Sundance’s Art of Editing fellowship, and Doc Amazonie Caraïbe in French Guyana. He currently teaches at Parsons in Paris.
As a Logan fellow, Isidore will work with Arturo González Villaseñor on a documentary film about Antonio del Conde, 95, a Mexican arms dealer who supplied Fidel Castro’s rebel force in their first attempts at Cuban revolution. It follows del Conde as he drives across Mexico to reconnect with the daughter he’d long neglected — retracing the route he took to organize Castro’s invasion of Cuba.