Jay Rosenblatt

Q: Has Jay Rosenblatt won any awards?

Yes, Jay Rosenblatt has received numerous awards for his documentaries, including recognition at various film festivals for his unique approach to storytelling.

Q: What was Jay Rosenblatt's first film?

Jay Rosenblatt's first film is often considered to be 'The Smell of Burning Ants' released in 1994, which explores themes of childhood and memory.

Q: What is Jay Rosenblatt's filmmaking style?

Jay Rosenblatt's filmmaking style is characterized by a blend of documentary and experimental techniques, often incorporating personal narratives and archival footage to create emotional depth.

Q: What themes does Jay Rosenblatt explore in his films?

His films often explore themes of memory, identity, and social issues, particularly focusing on the complexities of human relationships and personal experiences.

Q: How many children does Jay Rosenblatt have?

Jay Rosenblatt has two children, though their names are not publicly disclosed.

Q: What is Jay Rosenblatt's estimated net worth?

Jay Rosenblatt's estimated net worth is around $1 million, primarily from his successful career in documentary filmmaking.

Q: Where was Jay Rosenblatt born?

Jay Rosenblatt was born in New York City, New York, USA, which has influenced his artistic perspective and storytelling.

Known for

When We Were Bullies (2021)

2021 / Documentary / 36mins

A mind-boggling "coincidence" leads the filmmaker to track down his fifth grade class – and fifth grade teacher – to examine their memory of...

Name

Jay Rosenblatt

Height

6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)

Born

15 March 1956, New York City, New York, USA

Spouses

Name (2000–present)

Children

2 children

Parents

Father: Name, Mother: Name

Estimated Net Worth

$1 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2025	Movie Heartbeat This emotionally raw and intimate documentary, shot 25 years ago, follows a couple - the filmmakers – in their complicated...	Jay	Not rated
2021	Movie How Do You Measure a Year? For 17 years, filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt filmed his daughter Ella on her birthday in the same spot, asking her the...	Self	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2021	Movie When We Were Bullies A mind-boggling "coincidence" leads the filmmaker to track down his fifth grade class – and fifth grade teacher – to...	Self	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2017	Movie The Show About the Show Independent Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi is trying to make a television show. He persuades BRIC TV, a Brooklyn non-profit Arts organization,...	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2011	Movie The D Train An old man reflects on his entire life. How quickly it all goes by.	himself	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2006	Movie I Am a Sex Addict Just moments before his third wedding, Zahedi relates with utter sincerity and astonishing candor his obsession with prostitutes. He retraces...	L.A. Therapist	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2005	Movie The Film Within the Film Yerba Buena Center for the Arts commissions Caveh Zahedi to make a film.	Self	Not rated
2001	Movie In the Bathtub of the World On January 1st, 1999, Caveh Zahedi started a one-year video diary. The idea was to shoot one minute each day....	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2000	Movie King of the Jews King of the Jews is a film about anti-Semitism and transcendence. Utilizing Hollywood movies, 1950's educational films, personal home movies...	Narrator	TMDB 8.0 / 10
TBA	Movie A Pregnant Moment A 'dog-u-mentary' about birth, loss and near death. The film follows three adults and a dog named Lola through Lola's...	Unknown character	TMDB 9.0 / 10

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2025	Movie Heartbeat Shot 25 years ago, this intimate, disarming and emotionally raw documentary offers a privileged window into a couple (filmmakers Jay...	Director Directing	Not rated
2025	Movie Heartbeat This emotionally raw and intimate documentary, shot 25 years ago, follows a couple - the filmmakers – in their complicated...	Director Directing	Not rated
2021	Movie How Do You Measure a Year? For 17 years, filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt filmed his daughter Ella on her birthday in the same spot, asking her the...	Director of Photography Camera	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2021	Movie How Do You Measure a Year? For 17 years, filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt filmed his daughter Ella on her birthday in the same spot, asking her the...	Editor Editing	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2021	Movie How Do You Measure a Year? For 17 years, filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt filmed his daughter Ella on her birthday in the same spot, asking her the...	Sound Sound	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2021	Movie How Do You Measure a Year? For 17 years, filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt filmed his daughter Ella on her birthday in the same spot, asking her the...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2021	Movie How Do You Measure a Year? For 17 years, filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt filmed his daughter Ella on her birthday in the same spot, asking her the...	Producer Production	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2021	Movie When We Were Bullies A mind-boggling "coincidence" leads the filmmaker to track down his fifth grade class – and fifth grade teacher – to...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2021	Movie When We Were Bullies A mind-boggling "coincidence" leads the filmmaker to track down his fifth grade class – and fifth grade teacher – to...	Director of Photography Camera	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2021	Movie When We Were Bullies A mind-boggling "coincidence" leads the filmmaker to track down his fifth grade class – and fifth grade teacher – to...	Producer Production	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2021	Movie When We Were Bullies A mind-boggling "coincidence" leads the filmmaker to track down his fifth grade class – and fifth grade teacher – to...	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2017	Movie Filmmakers Unite (FU)	Director Directing	Not rated
2017	Movie The Kodachrome Elegies The Kodachrome elegies is a short documentary about a lost film stock, the loss of innocence and the end of...	Director Directing	Not rated
2017	Movie Scared Very Scared An imagined therapy session that obliquely suggests the seeds of "Trump" and the subsequent fear and anxiety he evokes.	Director Directing	Not rated
2016	Movie When You Awake An unscientific and comedic study of what happens when two people are hypnotized leading into an exhilarating journey into the...	Director Directing	Not rated
2015	Movie A long way from home A hand-processed celluloid invocation of Jesus’ last hours that hints at the relationship between the spirit and the flesh. Had...	Director Directing	Not rated
2014	Movie The Claustrum Three women are in enclosed psychological zones that function as both refuge and jail.	Editor Editing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2014	Movie The Claustrum Three women are in enclosed psychological zones that function as both refuge and jail.	Producer Production	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2014	Movie The Claustrum Three women are in enclosed psychological zones that function as both refuge and jail.	Director Directing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2014	Movie Trace of the future according to Jay Rosenblatt Filmmakers that were selected at Visions du Réel in the past twenty editions celebrate the Festival's anniversary by each making...	Director Directing	Not rated
2012	Movie Inquire Within INQUIRE WITHIN is a hypnotic, apocalyptic examination of false choices, double binds, vulnerability and faith.	Director Directing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2011	Movie Way to Your Heart Found Footage Rock Video	Director Directing	Not rated
2011	Movie The D Train An old man reflects on his entire life. How quickly it all goes by.	Producer Production	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2011	Movie The D Train An old man reflects on his entire life. How quickly it all goes by.	Editor Editing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2011	Movie The D Train An old man reflects on his entire life. How quickly it all goes by.	Director Directing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2009	Movie The Darkness of Day The Darkness of Day is a haunting meditation on suicide. It is comprised entirely of found 16mm footage that had...	Editor Editing	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2009	Movie The Darkness of Day The Darkness of Day is a haunting meditation on suicide. It is comprised entirely of found 16mm footage that had...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2009	Movie The Darkness of Day The Darkness of Day is a haunting meditation on suicide. It is comprised entirely of found 16mm footage that had...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2008	Movie Beginning Filmmaking A father takes us through one year of trying to teach a preschooler how to make a film.	Director Directing	Not rated
2008	Movie Four Questions for a Rabbi When Stacey Ross unexpectedly died in 2007, her friends contacted filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt to complete a project she had only...	Director Directing	Not rated
2007	Movie One Minute Racist Caveh Zahedi tells the story of a contentious encounter with a college security guard, a story about a moment's lapse...	Camera Operator Camera	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2007	Movie I Just Wanted to Be Somebody Newsreels, commercials, and home movies are used to study the life and influence of Anita Bryant.	Director Directing	TMDB 4.5 / 10
2006	Movie I Am a Sex Addict Just moments before his third wedding, Zahedi relates with utter sincerity and astonishing candor his obsession with prostitutes. He retraces...	Editorial Consultant Editing	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2006	Movie Afraid So A film about fear and anxiety.  Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival	Director Directing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2005	Movie Phantom Limb The death of my seven-year-old brother when I was nine remains a painful and haunting memory. My parents did not...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2005	Movie I'm Charlie Chaplin ... because it's Halloween.	Director Directing	Not rated
2004	Movie I Like It a Lot A two year old, an ice cream cone and a clean, white shirt.	Director Directing	Not rated
2003	Movie I Used to Be a Filmmaker A film about fatherhood and the bond between a father and his infant daughter. The filmmaker documents the first eighteen...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2002	Movie Prayer  Faith and fear. Duck and cover. One response to 9/11.  Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival	Director Directing	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2002	Movie Underground Zero A collection of shorts made by various directors in response to 9/11.	Director Directing	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2001	Movie In the Bathtub of the World On January 1st, 1999, Caveh Zahedi started a one-year video diary. The idea was to shoot one minute each day....	Editorial Consultant Editing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2001	Movie Nine Lives (The Eternal Moment of Now) Exploring imagination, memories, dreams, or past lives of Pinky the cat.	Director Directing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2001	Movie Worm An off-screen narrator remembers a time he was five years old, walking to school in a heavy rain, wearing a...	Producer Production	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2001	Movie Worm An off-screen narrator remembers a time he was five years old, walking to school in a heavy rain, wearing a...	Editor Editing	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2001	Movie Worm An off-screen narrator remembers a time he was five years old, walking to school in a heavy rain, wearing a...	Director Directing	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2000	Movie Restricted Take a chance. Don't do it. This is America. Do it.	Director Directing	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2000	Movie King of the Jews King of the Jews is a film about anti-Semitism and transcendence. Utilizing Hollywood movies, 1950's educational films, personal home movies...	Editor Editing	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2000	Movie King of the Jews King of the Jews is a film about anti-Semitism and transcendence. Utilizing Hollywood movies, 1950's educational films, personal home movies...	Producer Production	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2000	Movie King of the Jews King of the Jews is a film about anti-Semitism and transcendence. Utilizing Hollywood movies, 1950's educational films, personal home movies...	Writer Writing	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2000	Movie King of the Jews King of the Jews is a film about anti-Semitism and transcendence. Utilizing Hollywood movies, 1950's educational films, personal home movies...	Director Directing	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1999	Movie Drop The trials and tribulations of truly independent filmmaking and the quest for the perfect shot.	Director Directing	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1998	Movie Human Remains Human Remains is a haunting documentary which illustrates the banality of evil by creating intimate portraits of five of the...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1996	Movie Period Piece Period Piece is a 30 min. documentary about menarche--a girl's first menstrual period--which is a fundamental experience in every woman's...	Producer Production	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1996	Movie Period Piece Period Piece is a 30 min. documentary about menarche--a girl's first menstrual period--which is a fundamental experience in every woman's...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1994	Movie The Smell of Burning Ants A haunting documentary on the pains of growing up male. It explores the inner and outer cruelties that boys perpetrate...	Editor Editing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1994	Movie The Smell of Burning Ants A haunting documentary on the pains of growing up male. It explores the inner and outer cruelties that boys perpetrate...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1991	Movie Short of Breath A woman is reduced to tears. She bends over backwards trying to be a good wife and mother. Her head...	Editor Editing	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1991	Movie Short of Breath A woman is reduced to tears. She bends over backwards trying to be a good wife and mother. Her head...	Director Directing	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1991	Movie Short of Breath A woman is reduced to tears. She bends over backwards trying to be a good wife and mother. Her head...	Writer Writing	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1990	Movie Brain in the Desert A haunting and humorous film about romantic relationships and insects.	Director Directing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
TBA	Movie A Pregnant Moment A 'dog-u-mentary' about birth, loss and near death. The film follows three adults and a dog named Lola through Lola's...	Director Directing	TMDB 9.0 / 10
TBA	Movie A Pregnant Moment A 'dog-u-mentary' about birth, loss and near death. The film follows three adults and a dog named Lola through Lola's...	Producer Production	TMDB 9.0 / 10
TBA	Movie A Pregnant Moment A 'dog-u-mentary' about birth, loss and near death. The film follows three adults and a dog named Lola through Lola's...	Editor Editing	TMDB 9.0 / 10
TBA	Movie Friend Good Mary Shelley’s writing combines with Boris Karloff’s performance to re-work the myth of Frankenstein. In five minutes the “monster” moves...	Director Directing	Not rated

How Do You Measure a Year?

2021 / TMDB 6.5

When We Were Bullies

2021 / TMDB 5.0

The Show About the Show

2017 / TMDB 8.0

The D Train

2011 / TMDB 6.0

I Am a Sex Addict

2006 / TMDB 5.5

The Film Within the Film

2005

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What was Jay Rosenblatt's first film?

What is Jay Rosenblatt's filmmaking style?

What themes does Jay Rosenblatt explore in his films?

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What is Jay Rosenblatt's estimated net worth?

Where was Jay Rosenblatt born?