David Kaplan
Director
David Kaplan is the writer/director of the feature film Year of the Fish, which premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically in 2008. Year of the Fish won Best Film honors at the 2007 Avignon Film Festival and the 2007 Asheville Film Festival; the Audience Award at the 2007 Independent Film Festival of Boston; and was nominated for the Piaget Producers Award at the 2009 Independent Spirit Awards. Kaplan has made several short films, including Little Red Riding Hood starring Christina Ricci and Quentin Crisp, which premiered at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival, was shown in theaters and on television throughout the world, and has been taught as part of the curriculum at Harvard, Oxford, and Columbia Universities. His other award-winning shorts include Little Suck-a-Thumb, The Frog King (1995 Sundance Film Festival), and LoveDeath, commissioned for Lincoln Center’s 2003 New York Video Festival. He is currently in post-production on his second feature film, a comedy set in an Indian restaurant in Jackson Heights, Queens, starring Aasif Mandvi (The Daily Show), Madhur Jaffrey (Shakespeare-Wallah) and legendary Bollywood actor Naseeruddin Shah (Monsoon Wedding). Kaplan recently lectured at Scripps College in Claremont, Calif. on “Fairy Tales into Film.” He has been a lecturer or guest speaker at Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, Columbia University, and the Tampere School of Art and Media, Finland.