Kimby Caplan
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Kimby Caplan (born 12 March 1974 in Phoenix, Arizona) is an American filmmaker.
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[edit] Early life
Caplan was born in Phoenix, Arizona. In 1975 the Caplan family moved to Denver, Colorado. When Caplan was 13 months old, it was found that she was deaf. In 1979 Caplan's parents divorced and she moved with her mother to Angel Fire, New Mexico.
[edit] College/Graduate School
Caplan attended the University of Colorado at Boulder. She went on to make four experimental short films, three of which received a Goldfarb award which is the highest honor possible as determined by faculty. These four films (alongside two others) now reside in a permanent collection, in the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences' Film Archive at the Mary Pickford Center in Los Angeles, California.
After graduating with a BFA in 1999, Caplan moved to Park City, Utah, where she volunteered at the Sundance Film Festival and worked as a ski instructor at Deer Valley Ski Resort. After several years of being inspired by the film scene at Sundance, Kimby enrolled in the Cinema-Television program at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. For her master's project at Southern Methodist University she made the documentary film, LISTEN. This chronicled, on a personal level, the journey her parents took with Doreen Pollack (an audio-verbal therapist to the profoundly deaf). LISTEN went on to win a first place at an Academy accredited festival, The Black Maria, and received a 2005 Student Academy Award (Bronze medal in the documentary category).[1] The film also won Juror's choice at the 2005 Black Maria Film and Video Festival and the Silver Award at the 2005 WorldFest Houston
[edit] Filmography
- Bula's Fortune (2009) (Direct-to-DVD) (as cinematographer)
- At What Price (2009) (as cinematographer)
- The Country I Remember (2009) (Direct-to-DVD) (as cinematographer)
- Close Enough (2009) (as director of photography)
- My Demon (2009) (as cinematographer)
- Song of David (2007) (as cinematographer)
- Through Deaf Eyes (2007) (Made-for-TV special) (as cinematographer)
- Natalie at Five O'Clock (2006) (as director of photography)
- Listen (2004) (as cinematographer)
[edit] References
- ^ Schou, Solvej (18 June 2005). "Young filmmakers' Oscar moment". The Press-Enterprise (California) (A. H. Belo Corporation). http://www.pe.com/entertainment/stories/PE_Fea_Ent_D_studentacademyawards.f9b6a.html. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
