Lee Caplin

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Lee Caplin is founder and chairman of Picture Entertainment Corporation,[1] a motion picture, television and theatrical production company that Executive Produced the Sony-Columbia Pictures $115 million feature film "Ali", starring Will Smith. Caplin is co-owner of Keystone Studios the successor to America's first motion picture studio, founded by Mack Sennett in 1912.

Caplin is Executive Producer of the Literary Estate of Nobel Prize winning author William Faulkner. He is also a founder and director of Velocity Services, Inc., a marketing company for custom ISP services for such affinity clients as AFL-CIO, American Racing, NBA, NHL, and NeoPets. VSI owns one of the industry's largest e-mail providers, mail.com[2]

Caplin's companies have published over 200 titles of illustrated educational and children's and books. He is also author of the book The Business of Art.[3]

Caplin was a Founding Faculty member of California State University Monterey Bay’s high tech campus in the establishment of its program in telecommunications, and participates on the International Advisory Board of the Monterey Institute for International Studies’ Center for Non-Proliferation.[4] He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Duke University, and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review.

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[edit] Filmography

[edit] Producer

  • Killer Moves (2007) (pre-production) (executive producer)
  • The Land of the Astronauts (2007) (pre-production) (producer)
  • Call Back (2007) (post-production) (executive producer)
  • Hoop Realities (2006) (post-production) (executive producer)
  • G.I. Jesus (2006) (producer)
  • Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (2005) (producer)
  • Steal Me (2005) (executive producer)
  • Surviving Eden (2004) (executive producer)
  • Ali (2001) (executive producer)
  • Old Man (1997) (TV) (executive producer) (uncredited)
... aka William Faulkner's Old Man
  • The Lottery (1996) (TV) (executive producer)
  • Son of Darkness: To Die for II (1991) (producer)
  • The Fulfillment of Mary Gray (1989) (TV) (executive producer)
... aka Fulfillment
  • To Die For (1989) (executive producer)
... aka Dracula: The Love Story
  • Wayside School (1986) (TV) (executive producer)
  • The Great American Art Game (1983) (TV) (creative producer)

[edit] Director

  • The Great American Art Game (1983) (TV) (uncredited)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Picture Entertainment website
  2. ^ mail.com webpage
  3. ^ Caplin, Lee, The Business of Art, Prentice Hall Press, 1998
  4. ^ Center for Non-Proliferation website

[edit] External links

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