Photography Workshop | Instructor

NINA ROSENBLUM is an Oscar-nominated, two-time IDA award-winning producer, director and writer of documentaries, shorts and segments. President of DAEDALUS PRODUCTIONS, INC., which she established in 1980, she has produced and directed for TBS, HBO, PBS, NY TIMES Television, SHOWTIME, ABC, and NBC. Her co-production partners include Channel Four/UK; WDR/Germany; La Sept, France and SBS/Australia.  She is a member of the Directors' Guild of America (Director), the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Women in Film, the Independent Feature Project and the International Documentary Association.

In fall 2000, Ms. Rosenblum produced and directed a Showtime/ NYT Television documentary, THE SKIN I’M IN, on the music of Jimi Hendrix and Sly and the Family Stone.  In 2000 she also produced and directed TWIN LENSES, about twin fashion photographers Frances McLaughlin Gil, the first woman on staff as a VOGUE photographer and Kathryn Abbe.  In 1992, Ms. Rosenblum was nominated for an Academy Award for her Denzel Washington and Louis Gossett, Jr. narrated PBS documentary, LIBERATORS: FIGHTING ON TWO FRONTS IN WORLD WAR II. 
This effort was followed by an Emmy Award and CableAce and Vision Award nominations in 1994 for the acclaimed TBS program, THE UNTOLD WEST: THE BLACK WEST, narrated by Danny Glover, which interwove documentary with dramatic segments. 

These documentary achievements added to the acclaimed, Sundance Special Jury Prize-winning, AMERICA & LEWIS HINE, PBS, 1984 and Rosenblum’s 1990 Susan Sarandon narrated feature documentary, THROUGH THE WIRE, PBS/POV, a graphic investigation of small group isolation and America’s female political prisoners. She produced related segments for ABC’s  “20/20” and for NBC’s  “Today” Show.  Rosenblum’s HBO, 1992 feature documentary LOCK-UP: THE PRISONERS OF RIKERS ISLAND, produced for the AMERICA UNDERCOVER series, further solidified Rosenblum and Daedalus Productions as major producers on the non-fiction scene. 

In 1999 Rosenblum produced and directed WALTER ROSENBLUM: IN SEARCH OF PITT STREET, a feature documentary chronicling the photographic career of her father, Walter Rosenblum, a highly decorated US Army Signal Corps cameraman who documented the D-Day landing on Omaha Beach and the liberation of the concentration camp at Dachau. WALTER ROSENBLUM: IN SEARCH OF PITT STREET premiered at the D-Day Museum and has been invited to numerous film festivals both here and abroad.  Her credits also include SLAVESHIP: THE TESTIMONY OF THE HENRIETTA MARIE, 1995, and A HISTORY OF WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS, 1997, shorts included in traveling exhibitions across the United States.

In 2002, Ms. Rosenblum completed UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES, a film about the “Mothers of the NY Disappeared” who are protesting the Rockefeller Mandatory Minimum Drug Laws, and CODE YELLOW: HOSPITAL AT GROUND ZERO, documenting the emergency response of NYU Downtown Hospital on 9/11. In 2005 she completed a co-production with Canal + Spain and Jazzy Producciones, ZAHIRA, LA QUE FLORECE, about a young woman who was seriously injured in the Madrid train bombing.  A retrospective homage to her 25 years of filmmaking was featured at Documenta/Madrid 2005.  In 2006, ZAHIRA won a CINE Golden Eagle and an award at the FI International Film Festival.  Ms. Rosenblum is currently working with a German television company producing a series about the USA.  She presented her film about her father at an homage to him in October 2006 at the Festival of Biographies of Artists, in Asolo, Italy.

Ms. Rosenblum completed  IN THE NAME OF DEMOCRACY: AMERICA’S CONSCIENCE AND A SOLDIER’S SACRIFICE for release this fall.  She is developing MARRIAGE FOR SOME, about the right to marry and is editing THIS IS THE PHOTO LEAGUE, the story of the organization of social documentary photographers who established the genre of “street photography” as they photographed areas of New York City in the thirties and forties. She is also developing a series about teen pregnancy.