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RECENT RELEASES How Do You Measure a Year? When We Were Bullies The Kodachrome Elegies The Films of Jay Rosenblatt - Vol. 2 When You Awake A Long Way From Home The Claustrum Inquire Within The D Train The Darkness of Day The Films of Jay Rosenblatt - Vol. 1 UPCOMING/RECENT EVENTS 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. January, 2018 - The Kodachrome Elegies and When You Awake screen at the London Short Film Festival. December, 2017 - In person screening at University of Chicago Film Studies Center. October-November, 2017 - DOK Leipzig will present an homage: The Cinema of Jay Rosenblatt and screen the World Premiere of Filmmakers Unite (FU). June, 2017 - The Kodachrome Elegies screens at AFI Docs, Washington DC. April, 2017 - The Kodachrome Elegies screens at Full Frame and Visions du Reel. March, 2017 - Jay Rosenblatt is one of the jurors of the 55th Ann Arbor 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. October, 2016 - When You Awake won an Experimental Short Film Diploma at the Message to Man International Film Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia and a Special Mention Night Award at the Signes de Nuit Film Festival in Lisbon, Portugal. August, 2016 - When You Awake will be shown Opening Night at MakeDox in Macedonia. It has also screened at San Francisco International Film Festival; Hot Docs, Toronto, Canada; Krakow Film Festival, Poland; Sheffield Documentary Film Festival, UK; Vila do Conde, Portugal; Palm Springs Shorts Fest; EDOC, Ecuador; Festival international Signes de Nuit; Message to Man International Film Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia; Ambulante Film Festival, Colombia; and Exis Festival, South Korea. April, 2016 - World Premiere of When You Awake at Visions du Reel, Switzerland October, 2015 - A Long Way From Home screens at Hamptons Film Festival, New York September, 2015 - A Long Way From Home screens at Message to Man Film Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia August, 2015 - A Long Way From Home screens at Dokufest, Kosovo. June/July, 2015 - A Long Way From Home screens at Krakow Film Festival in Poland and Vila do Conde in Portugal. The Claustrum screens at the Traverse City Film Festival. April, 2015 - A Long Way From Home premieres at Visions du Reel and San Francisco International Film Festival. November, 2014 - The Claustrum won the Best International Short Film Award at L'Alternativa Festival in Barcelona, Spain. September, 2014 - The Claustrum recently screened at Dokufest in Kosovo and will be screening at the Taiwan International Documentary Festival as well as Curtocircuito and L'Alternativa Festivals in Spain. June, 2014 - The Claustrum at Sheffield Docs, Vila do Conde and Hamburg Short Film Festivals. April, 2014 - The Claustrum premieres at Visions du Reel, Switzerland and San Francisco International Film Festival. August, 2013 - Retrospective and master class at Dokufest in Kosovo. March, 2013 - Inquire Within selected for the international competition at the Tampere Short Film Festival, Finland October, 2012 - Film/STILL Program of work at Denver Film Society 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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