Oscar Longlisted (Live Action Short) 2022
(Trailer here, Full film here)
“Writer/director Mark Rosenblatt may have built his career so far largely in theatre but he fully embraces the potential of film…” Eye For Film, 4.5/5*
“Rosenblatt has created a memorable short film…that puts a focus on the visual side of storytelling. With stellar production design and natural performances, Rosenblatt leaves us wanting more.” Upcoming On Screen, 4/5*
A little girl, spooked by a dark tale from her mother’s wartime past, starts to believe her adored cleaner is a thief.
Inspired by stories from the aftermath of my own family’s Holocaust survival, GANEF explores, through the tiniest of domestic details, the subtle and complicated impact of trauma on the next generation.
Special Mention, Young Jury Award for Best Short Film | UK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2020: “a quite magical telling of second generation Holocaust survivor’s grief and emotion [seen] in a very special way through the eyes of a child.” [Jury citation]
Winner, Best UK Narrative Short | NEW RENAISSANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2020
Winner, Best UK Narrative Short | NOTTINGHAM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2020
Awards Shortlist | LA SHORTS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2020
Finalist & Best Actress Nominee (Sophie McShera) | MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
Nominated, Best Int’l Short Film | SHARJAH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH
Nominated, Best Director | MADRID INDIE FILM FESTIVAL 2020
Official Film Festival Selections 2022
FESTIVALINTERNATIONAL DU FILM DE FICTION HISTORIQUE (FRANCE)
JOYCE FORUM JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL (CALIFORNIA)
NEW HAMPSHIRE JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL (US)
PALM SPRINGS JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL (US)
Official Film Festival Selections 2021
BOSTON JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL (US) - FRESHFLIX STRAND
NAPLES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (FLORIDA)
OFFLine FILM FESTIVAL (IRELAND)
TIRANA FILM FESTIVAL (ALBANIA) - Oscar Qualifying
MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (US & GLOBAL) - Oscar Qualifying
SHARJAH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES)
BOLTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (UK) - BAFTA & BIFA Qualifiying
ADIRONDACK FILM FESTIVAL (NEW YORK)
MIDDLEBURY NEW FILMMAKERS (VERMONT, US)
STONY BROOK FILM FESTIVAL (NEW YORK) - MovieMaker Top 50 Festival
INDY FILM FEST (INDIANA, US)
JULIEN DUBUQUE INTERNATIONAL (IOWA, US) - Moviemaker Magazine Top 25 Coolest Film Festivals
MANCHESTER FILM FESTIVAL (UK) - BIFA Qualifying
DAM SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (NEVADA, US) - MovieMaker Top 50 Festival
TAOS SHORTZ FILM FESTIVAL (NEW MEXICO, US) - MovieMaker Top 50 Festival
CRYSTAL PALACE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (UK)
BOULDER JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL (COLORADO, US)
GREATER PHOENIX JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL (ARIZONA, US)
Official Film Festival Selections 2020
FLICKERS’ ROVING EYE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (RHODE ISLAND, US) - sidebar festival of Oscar Qualifying Flickers’ Rhode Island Film Festival
SHORTS THAT ARE NOT PANTS (TORONTO, CANADA)
HOLLYSHORTS FILM FESTIVAL (LA, US) - Oscar Qualifying
LOS ANGELES SHORTS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - Oscar & BAFTA Qualifying
CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL - Oscar Qualifying
NORWICH FILM FESTIVAL (UK) - BAFTA & BIFA Qualifying
UK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL - BAFTA Qualifying
THE SHORTEST NIGHTS (LONDON, UK) - BIFA Qualifying
NOTTINGHAM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (UK) - WINNER, BEST UK NARRATIVE SHORT
WARSAW JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
NEW RENAISSANCE FILM FESTIVAL (LONDON, UK) - WINNER, BEST UK NARRATIVE SHORT, Best Actress (Sophie McShera) & Best Historic Drama nominations
MADRID INDIE FILM FESTIVAL (MADRIFF) - Best Director, Best Short nominations
NEW YORK SHORTS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Semi-Finalist | FLICKERS’ RHODE ISLAND FILM FESTIVAL - Oscar Qualifying
Cast Lydia Wilson, Sophie McShera, Danny Scheinmann and introducing Izabella Dziewanska.
Writer/director Mark Rosenblatt
Producers Suri Ellerton & Mark Rosenblatt for Dumbfounded Films
Exec Producer Anna Mohr-Pietsch for MetFilm Productions
Cinematographer Alana Mejia Gonzalez
Editor Maya Maffioli
Composer Marc Teitler
Sound Design Gunnar Oskarsson
Production Designer Sofia Stocco
Costume Designer Sheara Abrahams
Casting Director Matilda James
Running time: 14 minutes (including credits)
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WORLD PREMIERE, October-December 2017
Co-produced by The Bushwick Starr + West Yorkshire Playhouse
Created by Heather Christian
Co-Directed by Mark Rosenblatt & Emilyn Kowaleski
Featuring & made in collaboration with Sasha Brown, Heather Christian, Fred Epstein, Eric Farber & Maya Sharpe
A new music-theatre piece by Obie Award-winning composer and performer Heather Christian. Part seance, part cabaret, part Requiem Mass, Heather explores the space between living and dying for believers and non-believers.
Music, Book & Lyrics - Heather Christian
Director - Mark Rosenblatt
Co-Director - Emilyn Kowaleski
Guitar, Cello, & Vocals - Sasha Brown
Piano & Vocals - Heather Christian
Bass & Vocals - Fred Epstein
Percussion & Vocals - Eric Farber
Violin & Vocals - Maya Sharpe
Lighting Designer & Art Director - Andrew Schneider
Scenic Designers - Eric Farber & Andrew Schneider
Sound Designer - Stowe Nelson
Costume Designer - Heather McDevitt Barton
Dramaturg - Jill Frutkin
Orchestration - Sasha Brown, Heather Christian, Fred Epstein, Eric Farber & Maya Sharpe
Production Stage Manager - Kendall Allen
Technical Director/Associate Lighting Designer - Tater Dave Polato
Producer - Lucy Jackson
Associate Producer - Brittany Coyne
Wardrobe Supervisor and Assistant Costume Designer - Eva Jaunzemis
Sound Engineer - Jay Maury
Lighting Engineer - Eamon Goodman
Photography by Maria Baranova
Missing People by Brad Birch, Tokyo & Leeds
Eve Ensler’s furious, funny attack on the commodification of women around the world.
NEW YORK PREMIERE, June 2018, at the Lucille Lortel Theater, New York
Starring KIERSEY CLEMONS and LIZ MIKEL
Written by Eve Ensler
Directed by Mark Rosenblatt
Scenic designer Mark Wendland
Costume designer Andrea Lauer
Lighting designer Jeanette Yew
Producer Tony Speciale and Denise Dickens for Abingdon Theater & Tony Montenieri
Photography by Maria Baranova
****
UK PREMIERE, 2016, Leeds Playhouse (formerly West Yorkshire Playhouse)
West Yorkshire Playhouse, in association with Southbank Centre, presents the première of The Fruit Trilogy.
Starring AMELIA DONKOR and CARLA HARRISON-HODGE
Directed by Mark Rosenblatt
Set Lily Arnold
Lights Lizzie Powell
Sound Peter Rice
Reece Dinsdale (I.D., Branagh’s Hamlet) starred as Shakespeare’s nastiest schemer in a production which probed and pricked at the soul-shredding guilt beneath his unflappable veneer. Conor Murphy’s stunning, morgue-like design led the audience towards a dark dark night of the soul.
Direction Mark Rosenblatt
Set Conor Murphy
Lighting Sinead McKenna
Sound John Nicholls
Photography by Ant Robling
A 6 minute short, adapted from Shakespeare’s Antony & Cleopatra, and shot entirely on location at the Red Pyramid in Giza, Cairo. Made for Shakespeare’s Globe/BFI’s epic The Complete Walk, a 48-hour celebration of Shakespeare’s 400th Anniversary in 2016 on London’s South Bank and around the world.
Director/Adaptor - Mark Rosenblatt
DoP - Iona Firouzabadi
Cleopatra - Eleanor Matsuura
Iras - Katy Stephens
Making Noise Quietly, feature film for Open Palm Films, distributed in the UK by Verve. Now available to watch on Amazon Prime.
A triptych of stories, laced together by theme, Making Noise Quietly explores the impact of war on the lives of three groups of ordinary people across the 20th Century.
**** The Financial Times “…a powerful little fable about love, cruelty and emotional learning…a Hansel and Gretel tale with twists, textures and even some toxicity. Who will win the war of wills? The troubled, cruelty-prone father; the mutely mutinous son; or the woman played by Findlay like some strange, powerhouse combination of Frieda Lawrence, Grandma Moses and a kindly-mannered witch from the Brothers Grimm.”
Little White Lies “The final segment might be the most emotive…it toes a provocative line, discussing what makes and becomes of trauma, rage and cycles of violence, and whether it’s even possible to heal it. It’s tricky, murky storytelling, that refuses to paint a monstrous man as an outright monster, purporting him as a victim himself, in some ways….”
Directed by Dominic Dromgoole. Screenplay adaptation by Mark Rosenblatt (Making Noise Quietly) , Nick Drake (Being Friends) and Robert Holman (Lost).
You can watch the trailer, here and find out more here
Starring Olivier Award-winner, Deborah Findlay and Trystan Gravelle (Beast), Geoffrey Streatfeild, Barbara Marten, Matthew Tennyson & Luke Thompson, with a score by Oscar-winner Stephen Warbeck (Shakespeare In Love).
De Profundis by Oscar Wilde, in a new adaptation by Frank McGuinness
Directed by Mark Rosenblatt
Starring Simon Callow
Wilde’s passionate, searing, twisted love letter, sent from prison, to Bosie, performed by Olivier Award winner Simon Callow at the Vaudeville Theatre as part of Classic Spring’s Wilde Season, before transferring to the Edinburgh Festival in 2018.
Vaudeville Theatre, London - January 2018; Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh – August 2018
The Country by Martin Crimp
JAPANESE PREMIERE, Spring 2016
Gorch Brothers Productions at DDD Aoyama Cross Theater, Tokyo
Directed by Mark Rosenblatt
Starring: Nao Minamisawa, Yuhi Ozora, Akatsuki Date
One night a country doctor rescues an unconscious young woman from the scene of a deserted roadside accident. He tells his wife he has never met her before but , in Crimp’s cryptic noir-thriller, all is not as it seems.
Photographer: Shinsuke Sugino
A six-minute short film, made for The Complete Walk by Shakespeare’s Globe, London in 2016. Screenplay adaptation and direction by Mark Rosenblatt. Directors of photography, Iona Firouzabadi and David Pimm.
Tea's cold, lunch is late and the great Professor has turned out to be a fraud - for Uncle Vanya, life has gone wonky, it's gone to hell.
Only one thing can save him - a glamorous woman's love. But she's not interested either. And what's worse, she's married to the Professor.
Samuel Adamson’s new version of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya - a dark and funny exploration of cross-purposed love, bitter jealousy and a dysfunctional family - opened at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, in February 2015.
Chekhov’s darkly funny tragedy about crumbling lives and crumbling meaning, played on the Quarry Stage, Leeds Playhouse’s largest, against an epic forest of telegraph poles, on a vast plinth of mud and red carpets, designed by Dick Bird. The house was in the forest, the forest in the house.
Uncle Vanya David Ganly
Sonya Dorothea Myer-Bennett
Astrov Ryan Kiggell
Yelena Georgia Rylance
Professor Serebryakov John Bett
Waffles Graham Turner
Marina Anne Lacey
Maria Eve Pearce
Direction Mark Rosenblatt
Set Dick Bird
Lighting Sinead McKenna
Sound & Composition Dave Price
Movement Al Nedjari
Photography by Ant Robling
Waiting For Godot, Tobacco Factory Theatres, Oct-Nov 2017.
Director Mark Rosenblatt
Designer Janet Bird
Composer & Sound Designer Dave Price
Lighting Designer Matthew Graham
Cast:
Estragon Colin Connor
Vladimir David Fielder
Lucky Chris Bianchi
Pozzo John Stahl
The Boy Freddie Brown / Harvey Sandhu / Wilf Gordon / Gabriel McEvoy / Stan Brown / Cassian Coster
Stills photography: Mark Dawson Photography
Linda Marshall Griffiths’ wild reimagining propels Charlotte Bronte’s Villette into a bleak dystopian future. A crew of grouchy archaeologists dig a site for genetic clues which might unlock a deadly virus. Their lives are unalterably changed by the arrival of a brilliant, introverted young woman, a clone, desperate to unlock the mysteries of her own past.
Direction Mark Rosenblatt
Design Jess Curtis
Dominic Rowan as the iconic king himself, in this spectacular, landmark production of Shakespeare & Fletcher’s play, the first time it had been staged at Shakespeare’s Globe since it burned the original Globe down in 1613.
Available to buy on Amazon
Cast: Dominic Rowan, Ian McNeice, Kate Duchene, Miranda Raison, Amanda Lawrence, Anthony Howell, Peter Hamilton Dyer, Colin Hurley, John Dougall, Dickon Tyrell, Sam Cox, Michael Bertenshaw, John Cummins, Will Featherstone, Mary Doherty, Ben Deery.
Director Mark Rosenblatt
Set Angela Davies
Music Nigel Hess
Movement Sian Williams
Photography John Tramper
Jack Thorne’s adaptation of Alexander Master’s classic non-fiction book about the unlikely friendship between a bookish middle-class fella and a homeless motormouth. Opened 2013 Edinburgh Festival, toured Watford Palace & Sheffield Theatres.
Shortlisted Carol Tambor Award Best Production of Edinburgh Festival & nominated for Stage Excellence Award for Acting (Fraser Ayres).
Director Mark Rosenblatt
Set Jon Bausor
Lighting Tim Mascall
Sound/Composition John Walton & Yaniv Fridel
Arthur Schnitzler’s rarely performed 1918 classic was given its first London outing in 75 years by Dumbfounded Theatre and Oxford Stage Company in a spiky, fresh new version by Samuel Adamson.
It was Time Out No.1 Critics’ Choice and one of The Independent’s Top Shows of 2005. The production was also broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Guardian Theatre Critic Michael Billington’s review of Professor Bernhardi is republished in his book AFFAIR OF THE HEART, his overview of outstanding British theatre from 1992-2020.
Cast Christopher Godwin, John Stahl, Fred Pearson, John Lloyd Fillingham, Bertie Carvel, Mariah Gale, Roger Evans, John Dougall, Tom Godwin, Deka Walmsley, Jake Harders, Caroline Hayes, Dale Rapley
Director Mark Rosenblatt
Set Jon Bausor
Lighting Tim Mascall
Sound Adrienne Quartly
Producer Neil Laidlaw and Mark Rosenblatt for Dumbfounded Theatre
Alan Bennett’s double bill of two cynically affectionate memory plays- HYMN and COCKTAIL STICKS - with music by George Fenton. In a recording studio, Alan Bennett (played by the phenomenal Reece Dinsdale) and the Ligeti Quartet record a rich and textured music-memoir of Alan’s lost childhood, before he is whooshed back in time to face the parents and the Leeds, long lost, who so defined him.
HYMN
Reece Dinsdale as Alan Bennett, The Ligeti Quartet, Kate Antony and Simon Roberts
COCKTAIL STICKS
John Arthur (Dad), Marjorie Yates (Mam), Reece Dinsdale (Alan Bennett), Kate Antony and Simon Roberts
Director Mark Rosenblatt
Musical Direction Tom Green
Set Amanda Stoodley
Sound Adrienne Quartley
Lighting Charles Balfour
Courtyard Theatre, Leeds Playhouse, 2014
Photography Antony Crolla
The 2007 world premiere of Jack Shepherd’s epic play about one of Britain’s great struggles for equality and workers’ rights - the Chartist Movement. Performed by a huge company with live music by the great John Tams and Joe Townsend.
Writer Jack Shepherd
Director Mark Rosenblatt
Designer Janet Bird
Music John Tams & Joe Townsend
Choreographer Sian Williams
Photography Andy Bradshaw
Cast - Alice Haig, Louise Callaghan, Craig Gazey, Jennifer Kidd, Peter Hamilton Dyer, Dale Rapley, Mark Rice-Oxley, Phil Cumbus, Philip Bird, Christopher Obi, Nicholas Shaw, Leander Deeny, Pippa Nixon, Kirsty Besterman, Jim Bywater, Jonathan Moore
