AWARDS
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 3D 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
“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
“WATERMELONS” (writer/director) - Feature based on the Frida Kahlo / Diego
Rivera love story
“THE QUARTERED MAN” (co-writer) - Feature film
DIRECTOR
“ONE HOT SUMMER” – (director) for MAYA
ENTERTAINMENT & LIFETIME 2009
“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” Mini-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
“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.
And 2006 reading at the PASADENA PLAYHOUSE.
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 is slated to receive the 2010 Career Achievement Award at the 7th Annual
Reel Rasquache Art & Film Festival in June.
Please see Betty’s visual presentation on:
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