I Just Wanted to Be Somebody

Director

Jay Rosenblatt

Producer

Jay Rosenblatt

Editor

Jay Rosenblatt

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Jay Rosenblatt Film Library
Transit Media
P.O. Box 1084
Harriman, NY 10926
800-343-5540
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2006

United States

10 min

Color

What do the religious rights 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 1970’s 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.

Directors' Biography

Jay Rosenblatt is an internationally recognized artist who has been working as an independent filmmaker since 1980 and has completed over twenty-five films. His work explores our emotional and psychological cores. They are personal in their content yet universal in their appeal. His films have received over 100 awards and have screened throughout the world.

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