An Author's Retrospective: Jay Rosenblatt

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, at MoMA and at the theaters around the country.  Jay Rosenblatt is a recipient of a Guggenheim, USA Artists and a Rockefeller Fellowship. He is originally from New York and has lived in San Francisco for many years. For more than 20 years he was a film and video production instructor at various film schools in the Bay Area, including Stanford University, S.F. State University, and the San Francisco Art Institute. He is currently the Program Director of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. He has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology and, in a former life, worked as a therapist.

Filmography: 'The D Train' (2011), 'The Darkness of Day' (2009), 'Four Questions for a Rabbi' (2008), 'Beginning Filmmaking' (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), 'I Used to Be a Filmmaker' (2003), 'Friend Good' (2003), 'Prayer' (2002), 'Underground Zero' (2002, co-producer) 'Decidi!' (2002, co-directed with Stephanie Rapp), 'Worm' (2001, co-directed with Caveh Zahedi), 'Nine Lives: The Eternal Moment of Now' (2001), 'King of the Jews' (2000), 'Restricted' (1999), 'Drop' (1999, co-directed with Dina Ciraulo), 'A Pregnant Moment' (1999, co-directed with Jennifer Frame), 'Human Remains' (1998), 'Period Piece' (1996, co-directed with Jennifer Frame), 'The Smell of Burning Ants' (1994), 'Short Of Breath' (1990), 'Brain in the Desert' (1990, co-directed with Jennifer Frame), 'Paris X 2' (1988), 'Blood Test' (1985), 'Doubt' (1981).