Belle Karper Bio

Award-Winning Screenwriter, Author and Speaker

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So, it goes like this . . .

Belle Karper’s Bio, History and Experience

                                                                                                                                                      Birthplace – The South, y’all.

Education – UCLA and University of Arizona

Writing Conferences – Los Angeles and New York

Day Job – Full-time Author & Screenwriter

Current Awards —

 

Belle Karper – Las Vegas Film Festival

Official Finalist – (4th to the crown!)

 

 

 

 

 

Official Finalist Selection

FIRST PLACE WINNER – 2011 MOFILM Los Angeles, Next SXSW competition in Austin, then Barcelona, Spain!

A 78th Annual Writer’s Digest Award Winning Author

Finalist 2011 Top 25 Semi-Finalist Los Angeles Comedy Festival

Finalist 2011 10th FilmMakers International Screenwriting Awards (1st Round Qualifier — Still in Running)

Finalist 2011 New York City Gotham Film Festival – Final 5th Place Comedy

Finalist and 1st Runner Up Screenwriting Comp

Top 24 Finalist Los Angeles Reel Film Festival 2011

Contest Top 20 Finalist Atlanta PeachTree Film Festival 2011

Top 24 Finalist SkyFest Film Festival 2011

Current Writing Projects — 

— Announcing  “PICKLED TINK” –Award-Winnning – “Dumb Guy” Screwball Comedy with a Southern Flavor! Come on, Y’all!

— Announcing  “MAKING UP WITH MORTELLA” Multi-Award-Winnning — Dark Comedy about Good and Evil, the magic of MakeUp and the Beauty of the Heart.

— ME AND E.B. – Award-Winnning NonFiction Short Story of my experience with E.B. White (Stuart Little, The Elements of Style, Charlotte’s Web, and on)

— Four projects which are confidential and in the works . . . shhhh!

Current Interests —  

My Family and kids ….. Film Production ….. Comedy Screenwriting ….. Writing Screenplays, Books, Short Stories and Articles ….. Widow Mediator/Moderator, Date Coaching ….. Charity Work – Advisory Board-New Directions for Youth, Our House, Big Brothers Big Sisters

Desires —

To live fully.

Affiliations —

A Lot.

Experience —

Ran the LOS ANGELES MARATHON with my children.

Twice.

Board Member, Committee Member and Volunteer for various local Charities for several years – NEW DIRECTIONS FOR YOUTH ….. LOS ANGELES BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS …..  LAS VIRGINES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Annual Mother/Son Event  ….. Teach a Child How to Read Volunteer/Mentor – Las Virgines School District and San Fernando Valley READ project ….. EXECUTIVE BOARD SECRETARY (Past) AND BOARD MEMBER – NEW DIRECTIONS FOR YOUTH 2 years, currently on Advisory Board …..

Honors — 

CONGRESSMAN BRAD SHERMAN for Congressional Recognition ….. COUNCILMAN DENNIS ZINE for Los Angeles Recognition ….. CITY OF CALABASAS, JON WOLFSON for City of Calabasas Recognition ….. and  various other VIP’s recognition.

Instrumental in finding and securing cooperation between SAN FERNANDO    GRAFFITI REMOVAL PROGRAM and ICI Paints and Coatings International – and follow-up mentorship cooperation for parentless and misguided teens ….. Spoke personally with LOS ANGELES MAYOR VILLARAIGOSA about the importance of mentorship to youth that are victims of parental death and big city horrors ….. I am an expert on the delightful art of being a widow.

Years of REAL ESTATE — Commercial Residential Income Development – from dirt to sale and various Residential SFR projects.

Basically, gave up lucrative positioning in Real Estate to pursue a reality in film writing and production for the world stage.

Other Experiences —

….. Steven Tyler (Yes! of Aerosmith) called ME beautiful and tickled my tummy with his Rock’n’Roll fingers … And, my tummy is still buzzing!

….. Slutted it up for a night at the Playboy Mansion… but kept it (reasonably) clean while there.  😉 … Damn.

….. Dogsledded on with a team of twelve feisty dogs on an Alaskan Glacier bed… of all things, named Denver Glacier! This is Alaska, dammit! Not Colorado!

….. Ice-trekked with “Crampons” up steep ice inclines on Mendehall Glacier. Spooky huge. Felt like we were on the moon.

….. Camelback strolling by the sea  … s.l..o…w….l…..y……

….. Jumped from a plane at 15,000 feet… with a parachute in the Vegas Skyline!      “AAAAaaaaAAAAAaaaaaah…AAAAaaaahh…AA…aaaa!……… Ahhhhhhh-Wow!”

….. Rode on an elephant instead of a jeep on Safari.

….. Float-plane landing in the Misty Fjords of the Alaskan Wilderness. Just I, my husband, our guide, and a rickety old plane. Yikes, that’s a short landing strip.

….. Learned that you can’t always just drop a hook and get a fish in Alaska. 😦

….. Floated on a 10×10 reed raft down the River Kwai with piranha Swimming  below us in Thailand.

….. Loving concerts by the light of the moon at the Hollywood Bowl.

….. Climbed the Great Wall in China.

….. Mother/Daughter “Chicks Only” Cruise through the Caribbean.

….. Stood in the shadows of Stonehenge.

….. Swam with a Stingray, and later slipped it the tougue… !

….. Hiked in the mist of a Costa Rican Cloud Forest.

….. Crossed the Continental Divide.

….. Belly danced in Istanbul.

….. Negotiated pearls in the Hong Kong Jade Market.

….. Swam with wild dolphins on the shores of Honolulu.

….. climbed all Dunn’s River’s Falls in Jamaica, and managed to keep my swimsuit on.

….. Pulled an “all-nighter” on a 22-hour day in the chill of Oslo.

….. Tatted lace in Bruges, Belgium.

…..Zipped Ziplines zig-zag 600′ above the rainforest of Jamaica-mon.

….. Counted windmills in Copenhagen.

….. Belted out Broadway Showtunes all over the Southwest.

….. Strolled the “Red Light” district of Amsterdam.

….. Explored the art on the walls of Buckingham Palace.

….. Feared the teenage soldier, carrying an uzi, drinking from a juice box in   Cartagena.

….. Perfected the salsa in the Dominican Republic.

….. Our own Mother and Daughter Caribbean Cruise — Pure Maternal Perfection.

….. Did the “Bird Song” standing on the table at the Haufbrau Haus in Munich.

….. Heard the one-day “hurdy-gurdy” festival charm the sky as the bears turned in the twisting city of Bern, Switzerland.

….. Smelled the indelicate perfume of B.O. in Paris.

….. Was sleeping-gassed on a train from Nice to Rome.

….. Got slicked by stingrays on the shores of Grand Cayman.

….. Prior Student of E.B. White.

….. Got a stiff neck from eyeing the beauty of the Sistine Chapel.

….. Enjoyed the comings and goings of amoebic dysentery in Mexico City.

….. Drank warm beer everywhere east of the Atlantic.

….. Stood at the top of the Twin Towers.

….. Cried at the view of Ground Zero.

….. “Taco-ed” the boat, white-water rafting on level 4/5’s on Tennessee’s Ocoee River that was used for the 1996 Olympics.

….. University of Arizona Varsity PomPon/Cheerleader with kicks long past my head.

….. Fly-fished river trout on forgotten currents in Utah.

….. Downhill Trails on my Mountain Bike’s full suspension on Mammoth Mountain.

….. Giggled in snow showers at the Grand Canyon.

….. Marathon Concert-Going At the KROQ Weenie Roast.

….. Red rock dust on my hiking boots in Sedona.

….. Chewed sugar cane stubs along the Mississippi.

….. Lived through the riots in Watts’ Los Angeles and McGovern’s Alabama.

….. Ate deep-fried pickles on a hay ride in Tennessee.

….. Have worn the same lipstick color since I was a sixteen.

….. Personal Assistant to Bette Davis.

….. Swam with whales and their babies in 7000-foot water in 15’ swells, floating in awe as as they were only 10 feet away from me…

….. I am so lucky.                              

Stay tuned for MORE!

xoxo

Belle

FIRST PLACE WINNER – 2011 MOFILM Los Angeles, Next SXSW competition in Austin, then Barcelona, Spain!

A 78th Annual Writer’s Digest Award Winning Author

Finalist 2011 Top 25 Semi-Finalist Los Angeles Comedy Festival

Finalist 2011 10th FilmMakers International Screenwriting Awards (1st Round Qualifier — Still in Running)

Finalist 2011 New York City Gotham Film Festival – Final 5th Place Comedy

Finalist and 1st Runner Up Screenwriting Comp

Top 24 Finalist Los Angeles Reel Film Festival 2011

Contest Top 20 Finalist Atlanta PeachTree Film Festival 2011

Top 24 Finalist SkyFest Film Festival 2011

— Announcing  “PICKLED TINK” — Screwball Comedy Screenplay!   Belle Karper,

— Announcing  “MAKING UP WITH MORTELLA” — Dark Comedy about Good and Evil, the magic of MakeUp and the Beauty of the Heart.

Award-Winning Author, Screenwriter, Speaker, Humor, Comedy, Suspense, Tragedy www.BelleKarper.com                         Email Belle@BelleKarper.com
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