Mike Kaplan
Mike Kaplan has had a wide-ranging career in the motion picture industry as an independent producer (he produced Lindsay Anderson´s highly acclaimed, award-winning and star cast “The Whales of August”, 1987), distributor, actor, marketing executive, and close associate of Stanley Kubrick (“Clockwork Orange”, “2001: A Space Odyssey”), Hal Ashby (“Let’s Spend the Night Together”) and Robert Altman (since “Buffalo Bill and the Indians”, 1976). He settled in London to explore the English market for Warner Bros. and specialized in releasing unusual films like Barbet Schroeder’s “The Valley (Obscured by Clouds)”, Jack Hazan’s “A Bigger Splash”, Alan Rudolph’s “Welcome to L.A.” and Maximilian Schell’s “Marlene”. Kaplan, co-producer of “Short Cuts” (1993) co-directed “Luck, Trust and Ketchup” together with John Dorr. He is currently developing three projects based on novels.
John Dorr
John Dorr was the founder and executive director of EZTV, the United State’s first video center devoted to the production and exhibition of independent video. He was the first filmmaker to write and direct feature-length material on video and has curated an eclectic body of independent video. Mike Kaplan, the associate producer of “Short Cuts”(1993), and John Dorr (co-producer and co-director of “Luck, Trust and Ketchup”), had successfully worked together on previous projects including Altman’s award-winning HBO series “Tanner, ’88” which was presented by the EZTV Arts Foundation. In 1993, John Dorr died from complications caused by AIDS during the editing process of “Luck, Trust and Ketchup”.