Betty Kaplan

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Nombre: Betty Kaplan

País: Estados Unidos

Cargo: Directora y guionista de Cine y TV

Título de la conferencia: “Armonizar la disonancia entre la producción y el director”

 

 

 

 

 

Betty Kaplan es una directora de cine estadounidense nacida en la ciudad de Nueva York y criada en Caracas, Venezuela. Dirigió la película Doña Bárbara, Almost a Woman y Of Love and Shadows. Kaplan reside actualmente en Los Ángeles, California. Escribe y produce a menudo sus propios proyectos.

Su trabajo anterior incluye el guion y la dirección de Bolívar (1983), una miniserie para la televisión financiada por Venezolana de Televisión canal del estado venezolano, en coproducción con América Televisión Canal 4 de Perú. Dramatizando las hazañas históricas de Simón Bolívar en su lucha por liberar a Sudamérica del Imperio español.

También dirigió Caminos que andan, una serie de documentales dramáticos (14) sobre las vidas de los escritores latinoamericanos, rodados en Francia, España, Venezuela, Perú, Inglaterra y Nicaragua para la televisión nacional de Venezuela.

En Of Love and Shadows, una adaptación de la novela De amor y de sombra de la escritora chilena Isabel Allende, Kaplan dio al actor español Antonio Banderas su primer papel protagónico en un película en idioma inglés; y se le da el crédito de introducir a Banderas en el mundo de Hollywood.

Actualmente trabaja en el proyecto de El Número Uno, una película dedicada a la fascinante historia y la trágica muerte del personaje número uno de la televisión venezolana; Renny Ottolina. Renny fue un presentador de la televisión local que adquirió bastante fama debido a su mordaz crítica a la política nacional. Deja la televisión y se dedica a la política para ser postulado como presidente de la República, pero poco tiempo después de esto muere en extrañas circunstancias en un viaje en avioneta, lo que ha iniciado desde entonces una serie de teorías acerca de un supuesto asesinato.

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 7th Annual Reel Rasquache Art & Film Festival in June.

Please see Betty’s visual presentation on

WWW.TATTOOPICTURES.TV   WWW.BETTYKAPLAN.ORG  http://www.youtube.com/user/LaKaplan

Her “Criminal Intent” LEGACY :    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001DSQM1E

Her films:       http://www.netflix.com/Search?v1=betty+Kaplan&lnkce=acsNoEnhRt

 

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