FILM
I Just Wanted To Be Somebody
Jay Rosenblatt
United States, 2006
Beta (Sp) Pal (16mm, Super 8mm, Video). 10min. Color / Black and white. VOSC17:15h
Audiorio CCCBProduction: Jay Rosenblatt, [email protected], +1 415 641 82 20
Editor: Jay Rosenblatt
Screenplay: Fenton Johnson
Music: Beethoven
Actors: Anita BryantSinopsis: 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 takes us back to the late 1970s and reflects on Bryant's life and the impact she had. The film is made up of news footage, commercials and Bryant's own home movies.
Bio: Jay Rosenblatt has been making films for over twenty years and is a recipient of a Guggenheim and a Rockefeller Fellowship. His highly acclaimed and internationally screened films include Phantom Limb (2005), I Used To Be a Filmmaker (2003), screened at l'Alternativa, Nine Lives (The Eternal Moment of Now) (2001), King of the Jews (2000) and Human Remains (1998).
