About

Betsy Kalin

Betsy Kalin is an award-winning director/producer/writer at Itchy Bee Productions. She is a featured speaker at conferences, universities, film festivals, and community events.  She was awarded a NEH/ITVS Humanities Documentary Development Fellowship for her film Dreaming in Somali. Her documentaries Vision 2030: Future of SoCal and its follow-up Vision 2021: Future of SoCal were both Emmy-nominated. Her documentary East LA Interchange has won ten jury and audience awards and was broadcast on Spectrum News 1, highlighted on NBC L.A., and is being taught in classrooms at 200 universities worldwide. In 2016, she was the recipient of the Los Angeles City Historical Society’s J. Thomas Owen Award for illuminating L.A. history. Her films ROOF, CHAINED!, CLICK, and HEARTS CRACKED OPEN have been honored with multiple awards at festivals around the world. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Film and Mass Media Department at the University of Central Florida.

Itchy Bee Productions

Itchy Bee Productions is a full-service production and distribution company specializing in high-quality films that entertain, educate and inspire. Filmmaker Betsy Kalin originally formed Itchy Bee Productions in 1997 and the company’s award-winning documentary, fiction, and experimental films have screened worldwide. Itchy Bee Productions is committed to creating positive social change through our films and extensive impact campaigns. We believe in the power of storytelling to inspire dialogues, challenge perceptions and educate a wide audience around issues of human rights, peacebuilding, and social and environmental justice.