Isabel Bethencourt

About

Isabel is a cinematographer and director from a beach near Los Angeles, California. She studied cultural anthropology, cinematography, and documentary film at NYU’s Gallatin School, where her final colloquium questioned what it means to tell “true” stories. She was awarded for Craft in Cinematography at the First Run Film Festival by Tisch School of the Arts and shot a short documentary, GROUNDED (2016), that premiered at the Margaret Meade Film Festival. Her work as a director and cinematographer has been published by The Wall Street Journal, GQ, Teen Vogue, and the Special Olympics of New Jersey.