Jo Ann Kaplan Archive The records of the Jo Ann Kaplan Archive encompass nearly the entire span of the filmmaker’s life, from her childhood colouring books to her last artistic projects in the early 2010s. The largest section of the archive consists of records relating to her film and television projects. These contain material from all stages of the craft, including initial drafts of scripts, research materials, correspondence, proposals and pitches to production companies, scene breakdowns and shot lists, props, and VHS and cassette tape masters of video and audio. These begin with her master’s thesis film Dracula: A Family Romance (1971) and cover all notable works up to her death in 2016. Filmmaking projects which never made it past the drawing board are also represented here. Her most extensively documented works are further split into three subsections – Development & Pre-Production, Production, and Post-Production & Distribution. The remainder of the collection comprises a wide range of formats and subjects: her other artistic outputs in various formats including canvas paintings, sketchbooks, and photography in a breadth of subjects and mediums; in-depth research and influences for this output, drawn from exhibitions, performances, events, and clippings from newspapers, magazines, and other published works; the papers of her personal life which include notebooks, diaries, personal administration, documents relating to travel and immigration, and files relating to family life; and an extensive collection of correspondence ranging across 40 years from 1970 to 2010, most notably with Chris ???, a close friend of hers from her time in Paris, and Wayne Lavender, a friend from New York. 1950-2016