Fabiola Beracasa Beckman Explained

Fabiola Beracasa Beckman
Birth Name:Maria Fabiola Beracasa
Birth Place:1976 Caracas, Venezuela
Other Names:Fabiola Beracasa Beckman
Education:Boston College
Occupation:Film Producer
Years Active:2014-present
Spouse:Jason Beckman
Children:3

Fabiola Beracasa Beckman is a film and television producer, philanthropist and socialite. She was born in Caracas, Venezuela. She was the producer of 2014 biographical drama film Desert Dancer, the 2016 documentary The First Monday in May, and the 2024 documentary Diane von Furstenberg: Woman In Charge.

Early life and education

Beracasa Beckman was born Maria Fabiola Beracasa in Caracas, Venezuela.[1] Her father is Alfredo Beracasa, a Venezuelan banker and industrialist. Her mother, Veronica Hearst, married Randolph Apperson Hearst in 1987. Beracasa Beckman attended the Chateau Mont-Choisi boarding school in Lausanne, Switzerland, and later attended Boston College.[2]

Career

While attending school, Beracasa Beckman had a summer internship spanning 4 years at Chanel’s Paris studio. She worked at the New York office of Christian Dior overseeing special events.[2]

Beracasa Beckman was creative director for Circa, a company that places fine and antique jewelry with dealers and private collectors around the world, until 2008. She has been a contributing editor for ELLE,[3] Architectural Digest,[4] and Interview Magazine,[5]

She is co-owner and creative director at The Hole Gallery in New York City,[6] [7] and serves on the fashion advisory board of Mercado Global.[8]

Film Career

Beracasa Beckman is producer of "Desert Dancer," a 2014 film starring Freida Pinto about an Iranian dancer who strived to reach his dream despite dance being forbidden in Iran.[9] She also produces The Grant, a TV show where social entrepreneurs compete for funding. Beracasa Beckman founded Planted Projects, a production company, in 2015.[10] In the same year she founded pARTicle Projects, a multimedia company.

Beracasa Beckman produced the film, The First Monday in May, a documentary about the 2015 Metropolitan Museum of Art's gala and spring exhibition, .[11] [12] The film was directed by Andrew Rossi and opened the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival.[13] [14] In 2021 she produced documentary Meat Me Halfway.[15]

In 2024, she produced Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge, co-directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Trish Dalton. The film was slated to be released on Hulu on June 25, 2024.[16]

Filmography

Philanthropy

She is a board member of the Art Production Fund,[17] and an adviser for the New York Academy of Arts.[18] She is a member of Friends of Finn, an organization which spreads awareness about puppy mills.[19]

Snap-X, which stands for spay, neuter, adopt, and protect, is a Petfinder Foundation charity which Beracasa Beckman operates and founded.[6] [7] [20]

Beracasa Beckman works with the International Rescue Committee. [21] In 2017, she organized a fundraising event for the global humanitarian aid organization with Dolce & Gabbana.[22] In 2018, she was named Fashion 4 Development’s Goodwill Ambassador.[23] [24]

Personal life

Beracasa Beckman lives in New York[2] with her husband Jason Beckman,[7] the founder of Colbeck Capital Management [25] whom she married in June 2014,[26] and their two sons and daughter.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Fabiola Beracasa . February 3, 2008 . Gawker . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304054357/http://gawker.com/551757/fabiola-beracasa . 2016-03-04 .
  2. A Fashionable Life: Veronica Hearst & Fabiola Beracasa. William Middleton. Harper's Bazaar. July 2006.
  3. Web site: Fabiola Beracasa . Elle.
  4. Web site: Architectural Digest USA - January 2018 . Architectual Digest USA . 4 June 2024.
  5. Web site: Interviews . Romy and the Bunnies . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150316062054/http://romyandthebunnies.com/fabiola-beracasa/ . 2015-03-16 .
  6. Web site: Annie Georgia Greenberg . December 1, 2011 . Fabiola Beracasa Schools Us On Layering . Refinery 29.
  7. Web site: Maxwell Williams . November 2014 . A Keen Eye . Cultured Magazine.
  8. Web site: The Mercado Global Team . Mercado Global . 4 June 2024.
  9. Web site: Dave McNary . November 9, 2013 . Freida Pinto's 'Desert Dancer' Picked Up by Relativity . Variety.
  10. Web site: Relativity, Condé Nast Entertainment Partner on Met Costume Institute Gala Documentary (EXCLUSIVE) . Yahoo . 2 June 2024.
  11. Web site: Brooks . Brian . April 16, 2016 . Andrew Rossi's 'The First Monday In May' Provides Access to Exclusive Bash - Tribeca Studio . April 29, 2016 . Deadline Hollywood.
  12. Web site: Schneier . Matthew . April 15, 2016 . A Party to Mark the Party of the Year . April 29, 2016 . The New York Times.
  13. News: Cox . Gordon . 22 February 2016 . Tribeca Film Festival to Open With Met Museum Documentary 'The First Monday in May' . 22 February 2016 . Variety.
  14. Web site: Heyman . Marshall . April 14, 2016 . Fashion's Night Out at the Movies . April 29, 2016 . The Wall Street Journal.
  15. Web site: Mercado Global celebró del Día Internacional de la Mujer . Estilo . 3 June 2024.
  16. Web site: First Look: Diane von Furstenberg Documentary Explores the Designer's Trailblazing 50-Year Career . People . 4 June 2024.
  17. Web site: About . Art Production Fund.
  18. Web site: Administration . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150429024634/http://nyaa.edu/nyaa/administration.html . 2015-04-29 . 2015-04-30 . New York Academy of Art.
  19. Web site: Friends of Finn. The Humane Society of the United States. 2015-04-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20120326224608/http://www.humanesociety.org/about/events/friendsoffinn/about_friends_of_finn.html. 2012-03-26. dead.
  20. Web site: Face Time Fabiola Beracasa. Tina Turnbow. May 2, 2011. New York Times.
  21. Web site: What You Can Do to Help the Refugee Crisis . Vogue . 4 June 2024.
  22. Web site: Fabiola Beracasa Beckman and Dolce & Gabbana Host a Spring-Theme Shopping Soiree . Vogue . 4 June 2024.
  23. Web site: Fashion 4 Development to Honor Busquets, Heard, Goulding, Dunn at Ladies Luncheon . Women's Wear Daily . 4 June 2024.
  24. Web site: Fashion, Philanthropy and First Ladies Come Together for the F4D’s 8th Annual First Ladies Luncheon . Resident . 4 June 2024.
  25. Web site: Battle of the Weddings. June 10, 2014. Carson Griffith. Town and Country Magazine.
  26. Web site: Fabiola Beracasa and Jason Beckman's Wedding Extravaganza in Croatia. September 16, 2014. Hamish Bowles. Vogue.

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