Jay Rosenblatt's WHEN WE WERE BULLIES Nominated for Academy Award for Best Short Documentary

Jay Rosenblatt is an internationally recognized artist who has been working as an independent filmmaker since 1980 and has completed over thirty films. A maestro of found footage collage, his work explores our emotional and psychological cores. They are personal in their content yet universal in their appeal.

Gartenberg Media has recently entered into a distribution agreement for 15 of the filmmaker’s works, assembled together as THE FILMS OF JAY ROSENBLATT VOLUME 1 and 2, now available from GME Streamline as DSL downloadable files or on DVD. We wish Jay all the best at the upcoming Oscars!

2022 ACADEMY AWARD® Nomination,
Best Short Documentary

Official Selection, Telluride Film Festival
World Premiere, Sundance Film Festival

“Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous”, Albert Einstein once said. WHEN WE WERE BULLIES begins with a mind boggling ‘coincidence’ which ultimately leads the filmmaker to track down his fifth grade class, and the class’ teacher, to see what they remember of a bullying incident from 50 years ago. In a playful yet poignant way, Rosenblatt begins to understand his complicity and the bully in all of us. Using a mix of collage, conversations with his former colleagues, the wisdom of his teacher, and his own slippery voice-over narration, Rosenblatt constructs a moving reflection on our own capacity to be destructive. WHEN WE WERE BULLIES is a humorous and gentle meditation on the banality of evil.