Talent Guide
Isidore Bethel
- Discipline:Editor, Producer
- Program Year:Documentary Lab 2017
Bio
Isidore Bethel is a French-American filmmaker. A graduate of Harvard College, the Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris-Ulm) and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he has edited and/or produced works by directors Jean-Xavier de Lestrade (Murder on a Sunday Morning: Ten Years Later), Dominique Cabrera (Grandir), Laurent Becue-Renard (Of Men and War) and Juan Manuel Sepulveda (La Balada del Oppenheimer Park), with films screening at the Cannes Film Festival, IDFA, the LA Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art and the Pompidou Center. Bethel is a Lagardere Foundation Fellow, a Jack Kent Cooke Fellow for the Arts, an artist-in-residence with the Institut Francais and a Film Independent Fellow.
Current Project
Shadow of His WingsLogline
Hoping to understand his Ethiopian father's history of forced migration, an American filmmaker moves to Addis Ababa and falls in love with a young man who soon must flee homophobic death threats at home to become France's first LGBT refugee from Ethiopia.