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Beginning Filmmaking
Produced and Directed by Jay Rosenblatt
23 minutes • Beta SP • color • 2008 The EMPA Work Life Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival It has been two and a half years since Ella said she wanted to be a filmmaker. Now she is turning 4 and her filmmaker dad has given her a video camera for her birthday. Beginning Filmmaking takes us through one year of trying to teach a preschooler how to make a film. Ella rises to the challenge but on her own terms. We experience the joys and frustrations both of being a parent and of being a child, and find that you do have to be careful what you wish for.
REVIEWS
"...what 'Beginning Filmmaking' begins to show is not just a youngster approaching her first film, but the parameters of parenting. The scenario is scripted with laughs and love as Jay and Ella play their parts perfectly." "Just four years old, Ella Rosenblatt is facing fundamental questions that sooner or later face every artist. How dedicated is she to her art? What is her art? How is her identity wrapped up in her art? And what the heck was she thinking when she embarked on this project anyway?
AWARDS
The EMPA Work Life Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival
SCREENINGS
International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)
CREDITS
Director, Producer, Editor: Jay Rosenblatt 
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