Hollywood director and screenwriter, Betty Kaplan at the XI World Summit of the Telenovela and Fiction Series Industry in Puerto Rico

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Hollywood director and screenwriter, Betty Kaplan at the XI World Summit of the Telenovela and Fiction Series Industry in Puerto Rico

Betty Kaplan is an American film director born in New York City and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. She directed the film Dona Barbara, Almost a Woman and Of Love and Shadows. Kaplan currently resides in Los Angeles, California. Often writes and produces its own projects.

elvis Her previous work includes the script and the direction of Bolivar (1983), a miniseries for television funded by Venezolana de Television state channel, in co-production with America Television Canal 4 Peru. Dramatizing the historical exploits of Simon Bolivar in his struggle to liberate South America from the Spanish Empire.

Also directed Caminos que Andan a dramatic documentary series (14) on the lives of Latin American writers, shot in France, Spain, Venezuela, Peru, England and Nicaragua for the Television Nacional de Venezuela.

In Of Love and Shadows an adaptation of the novella De Amor y de Sombra of Chilean writer Isabel Allende. Kaplan gave Spanish actor Antonio Banderas his first starring role in an English language film, and is given credit for introducing Banderas in the world of Hollywood.

Currently working in the project El Numero Uno, a film dedicated to the fascinating history and the tragic death of the number one character of Venezuelan television; Renny Ottolina. Renny was local television presenter who acquired quite a reputation due to its scathing critique of national policy. Leaves TV and is dedicated to politics to be nominated as president, but soon after it dies under mysterious circumstances in a plane trip, since then, has initiated a series of theories about an alleged murder.