Jay Rosenblatt Movies

A father takes us through one year of trying to teach a preschooler how to make a film.

Period Piece is a 30 min. documentary about menarche--a girl's first menstrual period--which is a fundamental experience in every woman's life, yet...

Newsreels, commercials, and home movies are used to study the life and influence of Anita Bryant.

A film about fear and anxiety. 
Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival



When Stacey Ross unexpectedly died in 2007, her friends contacted filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt to complete a project she had only just begun. The result...

A woman is reduced to tears. She bends over backwards trying to be a good wife and mother. Her head is cut off from her heart. A doctor picks her...

A two year old, an ice cream cone and a clean, white shirt.

The trials and tribulations of truly independent filmmaking and the quest for the perfect shot.

Caveh Zahedi tells the story of a contentious encounter with a college security guard, a story about a moment's lapse into racism. The film attempts...

INQUIRE WITHIN is a hypnotic, apocalyptic examination of false choices, double binds, vulnerability and faith.

Mary Shelley’s writing combines with Boris Karloff’s performance to re-work the myth of Frankenstein. In five minutes the...

Found Footage Rock Video

An old man reflects on his entire life. How quickly it all goes by.

The death of my seven-year-old brother when I was nine remains a painful and haunting memory. My parents did not know how to cope with the loss of...

An unscientific and comedic study of what happens when two people are hypnotized leading into an exhilarating journey into the unconscious mind (the...


Faith and fear. Duck and cover. One response to 9/11.
 Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival


Take a chance. Don't do it. This is America. Do it.

A 'dog-u-mentary' about birth, loss and near death. The film follows three adults and a dog named Lola through Lola's pregnancy, the birth of her...

An off-screen narrator remembers a time he was five years old, walking to school in a heavy rain, wearing a yellow slicker and cap. He relates to us...

The Kodachrome elegies is a short documentary about a lost film stock, the loss of innocence and the end of an era.