I Just Wanted to Be Somebody :: Jay Rosenblatt Films

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	I Just Wanted to Be Somebody Produced and Directed by Jay Rosenblatt 10 minutes • Beta SP • color • 2006 Grand Prize, Regensburg Short Film Week, Germany What do the religious right and the gay liberation movement have in common? Both were fortified by the efforts of one woman – Anita Bryant. Part document and part poem, I Just Wanted to Be Somebody brings us back to the late 1970’s and reflects on Bryant’s life and the impact she had. The film is comprised of news footage, commercials and Bryant’s own home movies. (Clips from I Just Wanted to Be Somebody appear in Gus Van Zant's film MILK.) AWARDS Grand Prize, Regensburg Short Film Week, Germany First Prize, Athens International Film & Video Festival, Ohio 2nd Prize, Documentary, Marin County Fair Film Competition Award of Merit, California State Fair SCREENINGS Sundance Film Festival IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) SF Frameline Film Festival Tribeca Film Festival Palm Springs International Short Film Festival Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival, Canada Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Germany Thessaloniki Film Festival, Greece DocumentaMadrid, Spain Uppsala Film Festival, Sweden Sydney Film Festival, Australia IndieLisboa, Portugal Silverdocs Ann Arbor Film Festival Silverlake Film Festival, Los Angeles Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Punta Vista, Spain Hamburg Short Film Festival, Germany Ashland Film Festival Madrid Doc Festival, Spain Newfest, New York Sarasota Film Festival Arizona Film Festival Nashville Film Festival Odense Film Festival, Denmark Winterhur Film Festival, Switzerland Seattle Film Festival London Film Festival DOCSDF, Mexico Guelph Film festival Newport Short Film Festival Inside Out, Toronto Mix Festival, New York Kassel Film Festival, Germany Denver International Film Festival L'Alternativa, Spain VideoEx, Switzerland Boston Museum CREDITS Produced and directed by Jay Rosenblatt Letter written and read by Fenton Johnson Included in The Films of Jay Rosenblatt - Vol. 2

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