Betty Kaplan

Name: Betty Kaplan

Country: Estados Unidos

Position: Directora y guionista de Cine y TV

Conference title: “Armonizar la disonancia entre la producción y el director”

B E T T Y K A P L A N

Writer (WGA) • Director (DGA)

AWARDS

Imagen Award Nomination for Best TV Movie 2010

Career Achievement Award – Reel Rasquache Film Festival 2010

Peabody Award 2003

Imagen Award for Best TV Movie and Best Actress 2003

CineSol Award of Excellence 2002

Audience Award – Sao Paulo Film Festival 1994

Audience Award – Habana Film Festival 1994

The Latino Film Festival, New York

Special Award for Extensive Body of Work 1988

Mara Award Mini Series 1983

Mara Award for Best Cultural Series 1982

Best Short Film Award – Venezuela 1981

Best Short Film Award – Venezuela 1974

EDUCATION

Working in 3-D Lenny Lipton

Screenwriting Robert McKee’s

Directing American Film Institute

TV Production & Directing BBC TV Production

Film Production New York University

Communication Art Catholic University Andres Bello

Acting NY Center for Stanislavsky Theater Art (Sonia Moore)

Ballet Nina Novak (Ballet Russe De Montecarlo)

Jazz Jaime Rogers

WRITER

“SIMONE” (writer)

“ IN SEARCH OF INGRID” (writer) – Feature fim

“AZTEC EAGLES” (writer) – Feature film

“THE ESSENCE OF TINA” The story of Tina Modotti (being considered by HBO)

“MUM’S THE WORD” (writer) at the BBC and Channel Four

” EL NUMERO UNO” (writer and director) – Feature casting

“ BEYOND MUD AND VINES” (screenwriter) Feature film

“SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION” (writer – director) Feature being cast.

“CALLE OCHO” (co-writer/attached to direct) – Feature focusing on the Miami music scene

“BEATING THE SYSTEM” (co-writer) – Feature film

B E T T Y K A P L A N

DIRECTOR

“WATERMELONS” (writer/director) – Feature based on the Frida Kahlo / Diego Rivera love story

“THE QUARTERED MAN” (co-writer) – Feature film

“IN SEARCH OF INGRID” – (director) in PREPRODUCTION 2012

“ONE HOT SUMMER” – (director) for MAYA Entertainment & LIFETIME 2009

Imagen Award Nomination

“LAW AND ORDER CRIMINAL INTENT: LEGACY” (Season 7) – (director) NBC 2008

Highest rated LOCI episode: 4.06 loc & 3.81 Nat

“THE DIVISION: THE JOURNEY” (Season 2) – (director) LIFETIME 2002

Highest rated Original Series Episode 3.6

“ALMOST A WOMAN” (writer – director) 2002

EXXON- MOBIL MASTERPIECE THEATRE & PARAMOUNT PICTURES

Peabody & Imagen Awards 2003

“DOÑA BARBARA” (writer/director) – feature based on Romulo Gallego’s novel

UNIVERSAL PICTURES 1998

Premiered UNIVISION’s FILM SERIES to extraordinary ratings 2004

“OF LOVE AND SHADOWS” (director, co-writer)

MIRAMAX – HBO – TELEMUNDO 1994

“THE VIOLINIST” (co-writer/director) – short film – aired on PBS 1986

“GANE, PERDIENDO” (writer/director) – special for Hispanic Television – Los Angeles 1987

“BOLIVAR” (co-writer/director) – 9 hour Mini Series

Premiered in 1983, in Syndication 1983- 2008

“THE MIDDLEMEN” (co-writer/director) 1985

“CAMINOS QUE ANDAN” Series (co-writer/director) Venezuela 1979-1983

Episode 1 – Alberto Arvelo Torrealba

Episode 2 – Manuel Felipe Rugeles

Episode 3 – Pio Tamayo

Episode 4 – Juan Beroes

Episode 5 – Don Fernando Paz Castillo

Episode 6 – Historia De Una Casa

Episode 7 – Rufino Blanco Fombona

Episode 8 – Ruben Dario

Episode 9 – Antonio Esteve: El Maestro Quitpesares

Episode 10 – Bello Desde Adentro

Episode 11 – Cesar Vallejo

INAUGURAL COLOR SPECIAL (co-writer/director) 1981

Venezuelan National Television

B E T T Y K A P L A N

“NEUROSIS ON WHEELS” (producer/writer/director) 1978

Aired in Venezuela, Peru, Nicaragua and Spain

“COMPADRE QUE ESTA PASANDO” (producer/writer/director) 1975

MUSIC VIDEOS

“COMPRENDELA” – Los Pachucos Grammy winner

“LA PAPA SIN CATSUP” – Jenni Rivera Grammy winner

“SITIO VACIO” – Roberto Robles

“COMO FUE” – Raul DiBlasio

“CUANDO YA NO ME QUIERAS” – Pablo Montero

“QUE VOY HACER SIN TI” – Pablo Montero

” DONA BARBARA” – Orlando Morais

“MATAME” - Naomi Delgado

DOCUMENTARY DIRECTOR, WRITER

“DEBRA WHEBE” - pioneer series for the City of Los Angeles

“CHILD CARE” - City of Caracas

“VIAJANDO CON POLAR” - series on Venezuela, people and places for theatrical dist.

” IN SEARCH OF …THE ANGEL OF DEATH”

COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR

Rosarita Refried Beans; Banco De Los Trabajadores; Banco Union; Presidential Campaign, Ron Pampero; Polar Beer; Pan American Airlines; Mary Quant.

JOURNALIST

Stringer for CBS; Columnist – Elite/Paginas (Venezuela)

Free Lance – Elle Magazine (London); LA Opinion (Los Angeles)

THEATER (Director)

“GOLPES A Mi Puerta” Bilingual Foundation – Los Angeles

“THE PITCH” Tiffany Theater – Los Angeles

“PENETRATUS” written 2001 1st reading at JULIA DE BURGO’s Theater in New York. 2006 reading at the PASADENA PLAYHOUSE.

“EVA LUNA” The Opera – in development

CHOREOGRAPHER

Trio “Los Antonettes” extensive nightclub work – South America and the Catskills

Musicals and Television – Venezuela

EVENTS

As Co-Chair of the DGA LATINO COMMITTEE Betty organized 5 key events at the DGA, involving Guillermo Del Toro, Luis Valdez, Jesus Salvador Trevino and Michael Jackson’s THIS IS IT with Kenny Ortega and MOTHER AND CHILD, as Moderator including Q & A with Rodrigo Garcia. Betty received the 2010 Career Achievement Award at the 7^th Annual Reel Rasquache Art & Film Festival in June.