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Bettina was born in New York City and began her career as a painter and designer.  Her fine art has been exhibited at the Hudson River Museum, the Franklin Furnace Archives, the University of California, San Diego, Mandeville Art Center gallery, and her designs have appeared in the New York Times, Womens Wear Daily, Seventeen Magazine, Spiegel Catalogue, Pottery Barn Catalogues and in Japanese Newspapers.

She studied film at the Rhode Island School of Design and later at the University of California, San Diego.

After moving to New York, she studied acting at The Lee Strasberg School, dance/choreography at Martha Graham and Phil Black and directing and screenwriting at New York University, the New School, and at Playwrights Horizon.

She has worked in a variety of capacities in film production but has focused most of her energy on her own film work.  Her films and film installations have been shown in New York, California, Montreal and Berlin. 

Her first two shorts, Still Life and Dialogue, were included in the Berlin International Film Festival.  Dialogue was included in the Montreal Festival of Films and Videos by Women and was screened at the Knitting Factory in New York.  It was acquired and aired on A&E for a period of one year.  Still Life was screened at a Tompkins Square Park Festival in New York and received superlative reviews from Karen Cooper of The Film Forum and AmyTaubin, former film critic of the Village  Voice.  

cSync was a finalist for consideration for production funds from the American Film Institute’s development grant for dramatic film and along with cIn the Wake of Illusion are two features in development. cThe Scream, a new thriller, is also in development.  Her feature stories have appeared in major newspapers, magazines and on the internet. (see www.bettinaincmedia.com).