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RECENT RELEASES Heartbeat How Do You Measure a Year? When We Were Bullies UPCOMING/RECENT EVENTS May 29, 2025 - How Do You Measure a Year? with Q&A. Jay Rosenblatt in May 28, 2025 - I Used To Be a Filmmaker: Short Films by Jay Rosenblatt March 16, 2024 - How the Light Gets In: Screening of several films and on-stage conversation with noted documentary author Bill Nichols at the Roxie. June 16, 2023 - How Do You Measure a Year? Jay interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered June 14, 2023 - How Do You Measure a Year? premieres on HBO. June 13, 2023 - How Do You Measure a Year? Jay and Ella on the TODAY Show. March, 2023 - How Do You Measure a Year? acquired by HBO. January, 2023 - How Do You Measure a Year? nominated for an Academy Award for Short Documentary December, 2022 - How Do You Measure a Year? selected for Academy Short Documentary Shortlist June, 2022 - How Do You Measure a Year? won the Golden Dragon Award. for Best Short Film at the Krakow Film Festival in Poland. May, 2022 - How Do You Measure a Year? won the Audience Award for International Competition at the DOCUMENTAMADRID Film Festival in Spain. March, 2022 - How Do You Measure a Year? awarded Best Short Documentary at It's All True Documentary Film Festival in Brazil. March 30, 2022 - When We Were Bullies acquired by HBO. March, 2022 - When We Were Bullies nominated for an Academy Award for Short Documentary and tours the US as part of Shorts International program. February, 2022 - When We Were Bullies screens for a week at New York's Film Forum with PLAYGROUND. December, 2021 - When We Were Bullies was selected for Academy Awards Short Documentary Shortlist. December, 2020 - When We Were Bullies will have its World Premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. August, 2020 - When We Were Bullies selected for the Telluride Film Festival.
November, 2016 - Jay Rosenblatt was awarded the Camerimage Award for Outstanding Achievements in Documentary Filmmaking at the Camerimage International Film Festival in Poland.
May/June, 2012 - Retrospective at EYE Film Institute, Amsterdam and Master Class at Netherlands Film Academy. April 7-13, 2011 - Major Retrospective at Visions du Reel Film Festival in Nyon, Switzerland. Visions du Reel Catalog.pdf April 29-30, 2011 - Retrospective at Wexner Art Center in Ohio.
RECENT AWARDS AND SCREENINGS How Do You Measure a Year? was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Documentary. When We Were Bullies was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Documentary. Eight films acquired by MoMA for their permanent collection: The Smell of Burning Ants, Human Remains, King of the Jews, Phantom Limb, Afraid So, I Just Wanted To Be Somebody, The Darkness of Day and Beginning Filmmaking. Inquire Within had its World Premiere at the 2012 Rotterdam Film Festival and US Premiere at SXSW. Screenings include Tribeca, SF International, EMAF (European Media Arts Festival) and Vila do Conde Shorts Film Festival, Portugal. Winner of Best Experimental Film, Marin County Fair. It screened in competition at the Tampere Short Film Festival in Finland, International Short Film Festival Winterhur, Switzerland and Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic. The D Train was awarded Best Short Documentary at Play Doc in Spain and a Jury Diploma at Message to Man International Film Festival in Russia. MoMA presents The Darkness of Day: Recent Films by Jay Rosenblatt The Darkness of Day was awarded Best Short Film in the International Official Competition of the Cali International Film Festival in Colombia and Best Documentary at the Tampere Film Festival in Finland. It has also won Best Short Documentary at Krakow Film Festival in Poland, It's All True in Brazil and Play Doc in Spain as well as Special Mentions at Punto De Vista Film Festival in Spain, Dokufest in Kosova and DOXA, Vancouver. Beginning Filmmaking is part of the American Documentary Showcase, a curated program of contemporary documentaries that is offered to US Embassies around the world.
February 2, 2021 - ‘When We Were Bullies’ by Pam Grady in SF Chronicle
February 1, 2021 - “Complicity Comes in Many Forms”: Jay Rosenblatt on His Sundance Short About Bullying, When We Were Bullies by Lauren Wissot in Filmmaker Magazine November, 2016 - Filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt on His Role as Provocateur, Entertainer, Healer by Will Tizard in VARIETY Fall, 2012 - The Films of Jay Rosenblatt, Vol. 2 DVD review in Documentary June 24, 2012 - The Films of Jay Rosenblatt, Vol. 2 DVD review in SF Chronicle October, 2011 - La vida nos estremece: Download pdf of short book by Udo Jacobsen (in Spanish) about Jay Rosenblatt's films March, 2011 - Interview by Max Goldberg in SF360 March 30, 2011 - Review by Cynthia Fuchs in PopMatters March 26, 2011 - Review by Valerie Milano in Hollywood Today December 28, 2010 - YEAR IN FILM: Digging Through the Year in Archival Footage in SF Bay Guardian October 13, 2010 - How to Make the Grim Appear Artfully Beautiful by Mike Hale in New York Times Fall Issue, 2010 - Poetry in Motion: Interview by Peter Bowen in FILMMAKER October 13, 2010 - Jay Rosenblatt Keeps on Digging in The Darkness of Day by Michelle Orange in The Village Voice October 12, 2010 - "Darkness" indeed: Jay Rosenblatt's recent films get a one-week run at MOMA--whew!" by James Van Maanen in Trust Movies October 2010 - The Filmmaker as Therapist by George Robinson in Jewish Week October 2010 - The Darkness of Day: Recent Films by Jay Rosenblatt in This Week in New York blog January 2010 - Analysis of Jay Rosenblatt's Films in Senses of Cinema, Issue 53 Winter 2010 - The Tyranny of Memory: The Films of Jay Rosenblatt, Volume 1 in Documentary October 2009 - The Films of Jay Rosenblatt, Vol. 1 DVD review in SF Chronicle. ![]() |
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