Isidore Bethel is an editor director and producer whom Filmmaker named one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2020 His work uses filmmaking to make sense of overwhelming experiences and touches on recurrent themes of displacement grief therapy aging trauma and sexuality 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 His second film Acts of Love codirected with French actor Francis Leplay premiered at Hot Docs in 2021 The films he has edited and produced have screened at Cannes Official and ACID sections IDFA Visions du Réel Cinéma du Réel TrueFalse and MoMAs Documentary Fortnight In addition to working in the United States Mexico and France he has also edited and produced films with filmmakers in Lebanon the United Kingdom Ethiopia and Turkey Critics have characterized his work as demonstrative of admirable restraint Wisemanesque tender and elegant
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