Jay Rosenblatt
(United States)

Jay Rosenblatt is an internationally recognized artist who has been working as an independent filmmaker since 1980 and has completed over twenty-five films. His work explores our emotional and psychological cores. They are personal in their content yet universal in their appeal.

His films have received over 100 awards and have screened throughout the world. A selection of his films had theatrical runs at the Film Forum in New York and at theaters around the country.

Eight of his films have been at the Sundance Film Festival and several of his films have shown on HBO/Cinemax, the Independent Film Channel and the Sundance Channel. Articles about his work have appeared in the Sunday NY Times Arts & Leisure section, the LA Times, the NY Times, Filmmaker magazine and the Village Voice.

Jay is a recipient of a Guggenheim, USA Artists and a Rockefeller Fellowship.

Jay is originally from New York and has lived in San Francisco for many years. He has been a film and video production instructor since 1989 at various film schools in the Bay Area, including Stanford University, S.F. State University, and the San Francisco Art Institute. He has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology and, in a former life, worked as a therapist.

Filmography
When You Awake
2016
A Long Way from Home
2015
The Claustrum
2014
Inquire Within
2012
The D Train
2011
The Darkness of Day
2009
Beginning Filmmaking
2008
Four Questions for a Rabbi
2008
I Just Wanted to Be Somebody
2006
Afraid So
2006
Phantom Limb
2005
I'm Charlie Chaplin
2005
I Like It a Lot
2004
Friend Good
2003
I Used to Be a Filmmaker
2003
Decidi
2002
Prayer
2002
Nine Lives - The Eternal Moment of Now
2001
Worm
2001
King of the Jews
2000
Drop
2000
Restricted
1999
A Pregnant Moment
1999
Human Remains
1998
Period Piece
1996
The Smell of Burning Ants
1994
Short Of Breath
1990
Brain in the Desert
1990
Paris X 2
1988
Blood Test
1985
Doubt
1981

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