Award-winning filmmaker Bradley Kaplan is dedicated to making poignant and engaging films that reveal and explore the most authentic and intimate human conditions. Kaplan directed (with longtime filmmaking partner Albert Maysles) and produced the feature-length documentary, The Love We Make, which won the Silver World Medal at the 2012 New York Festivals Awards. Kaplan directed and produced the highly-acclaimed Muhammad and Larry, for ESPN Films’ award-winning “30 for 30” series, for which Kaplan was honored with a prestigious Peabody Award. Previously, Kaplan directed and produced More Than A Paycheck: Hardest Working Americans for Executive Producer Brett Ratner and the Sundance Channel, and “Close Up: Photographers at WorK — ‘PortraitS'” for Ovation TV, Kaplan directed and produced Never Give Up On A Child. Additionally, Kaplan has directed and produced films for The Rolling Stones, Fall Out Boy, Rufus Wainwright, Sean Lennon, and R.E.M., among others. Kaplan produced the internationally acclaimed, multi-award-winning Sand and Sorrow, a feature documentary chronicling the ongoing genocide in Darfur, Sudan. Kaplan has recently founded Benefit Street Films LLC, where he serves as President and CEO.
Kaplan is a graduate of Brown University with a B.A. in Semiotics.