Jay Rosenblatt

Jay Rosenblatt is an internationally recognized artist who has been working as an independent filmmaker for decades and has completed over thirty films, eight of which have screened at the Sundance Film Festival and several have shown on HBO. His work explores our emotional and psychological cores. They are personal in their content yet universal in their appeal. Jay’s films have received over 100 awards, and two recent Academy Award® nominations for How Do You Measure a Year? (2023) and When We Were Bullies (2022).

Several of his films have had theatrical runs at the Film Forum in New York and at theaters around the country. In October 2010, he had a feature length program of work screen for a week at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Articles about his work have appeared in the Sunday NY Times Arts & Leisure section, the LA Times, the NY Times and Filmmaker magazine. 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 was a film and video production instructor from 1989-2010 at various film schools in the Bay Area, including Stanford University, S.F. State University, and the San Francisco Art Institute. Since 2010 he has been 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.