Betty Kaplan is a Venezuelan-American film director born in New York City and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. She has directed Doña Bárbara, Almost a Woman and Of Love and Shadows. Kaplan currently resides in Los Angeles, California. She has won several awards, among them the Peabody and many Audience Awards for her work. Her previous directorial work includes “ONE HOT SUMMER” starring Vanessa Marcil, Casper Van Dien and Jon Seda shot for LIFETIME Television released in 2009; “LAW AND ORDER CRIMINAL INTENT, "LEGACY” season 7 (2008), this was the highest rated Law & Order Criminal Intent episode: at 4.06 local & 3.8 National numbers; “THE DIVISION: THE JOURNEY” Season 2 for LIFETIME (2002) This was the highest rated Original Series Episode at 3.6 National numbers; "BOLIVAR," an entire mini-series for television Kaplan wrote and directed, financed by Venezuelan state television, dramatizing Simon Bolivar historical saga liberating South America from Spain. An annual television event in Venezuela; "CAMINOS QUE ANDAN," a series of eleven docu-dramas on the lives of Latin American writers that she filmed in Venezuela for the National Television of Venezuela. In Of Love and Shadows, an
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