A graduate of Harvard College, the École Normale Supérieure (Paris-Ulm), and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he has edited and/or produced works by directors Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, Dominique Cabrera, Laurent Bécue-Renard and Juan Manuel Sepúlveda, with films screening at the Cannes Film Festival, IDFA, LA Film Festival, Museum of Modern Art and the Pompidou Center. Bethel is a Lagardère Foundation Fellow, a Jack Kent Cooke Fellow for the Arts, an artist-in-residence with the Institut Français and a Film Independent Fellow.