Jay Rosenblatt
I Just Wanted to Be Somebody | 2006 | 10:00mins | BetaSP | USA
Jay Rosenblatt has been working as an independent filmmaker for over twenty years. His 16mm films have won various awards and have had numerous domestic and international screenings. He is currently a film production instructor at San Francisco State University and at the College of San Mateo. Rosenblatt also has a MA in Counselling Psychology and worked as a psychotherapist on psychiatric units for many years while making films.
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What do the religious right and the gay liberation movement have in common? Both were fortified by the efforts of one woman, Anita Bryant. Part document and part poem, I just Wanted to be Somebody brings us back to the late 1970s and reflects on Bryant’s life and the impact she had. The film is comprised of news footage, commercials and Bryant’s own home movies.
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