NEW DAY FILMS BY
Amalie R. Rothschild:

Conversations with Willard Van Dyke

It Happens to Us

Nana, Mom, and Me

Woo Who? May Wilson

Producer's Web Site:
www.amalierrothschild.com

Amalie R. Rothschild has a multi-faceted background in Graphic Design, Photography, Computer Imaging, Motion Picture and Video Production. She has a BFA (1967) in Graphic Design from Rhode Island School of Design where she studied photography with Harry Callahan, and an MFA (1969) in Film Production from New York University's Institute of Film and Television where she also studied photography with Paul Caponigro. From 1968 to 1974 she worked extensively as a free-lance photographer in the music field, her photographs appearing in The New York Times, Newsweek, Time-Life Books, Life Magazine, The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, After Dark and many other publications. From 1969 to 1971 she worked with the Joshua Light Show at the Fillmore East Theater in New York producing special effects photography, slides, graphics, films and film loops used during performances and was considered the theater's unofficial house photographer. She had unlimited access onstage and backstage to all the happenings at the Fillmore East, and was also on staff at the 1969 Woodstock Festival. During that period she photographed most of the major rock music events on the East Coast including the 1969 Newport Festival, Tanglewood 1969 & 1970, The Who's 1969 US premiere of their rock opera Tommy, the Rolling Stones at Madison Square Garden in November 1969, Bob Dylan's 1974 tour, and, in England, the 1969 Isle of Wight Festival. Rolling Stone featured one of her photographs of Bob Dylan on the cover of Issue 43. Bobbs Merrill devoted 30 pages to her work in their 1972 book The Photography of Rock. She was one of the two photographers for the 1987 Prentice Hall book The Food Lovers Guide to the Real New York. A selection of her work is in the Abbeville Press book Radical Rags (1990), Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock and Out (Doubleday, 1992), Cherokee Mist: The Lost Writings of Jimi Hendrix (HarperCollins, 1993), Sweet Chaos: The Grateful Dead's American Adventure (Clarkson Potter, 1998), Dylan (Metro Books, 1998), Woodstock: An Inside Look at the Movie that Shook Up the World and Defined a Generation (1999, Michael Wiese Prod), A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead (Broadway Books/Random House, 2002), Jimi Hendrix Musician (Backbeat Books, UK, 2004), Classic Hendrix (Genesis Publications, 2004), Echoes: The Complete History of Pink Floyd (Mind Head Publishing, 2007), and The Grateful Dead: 365 Days (Abrams, 2008) among many others. Since 1994 the Corbis/Bettmann Archive represents and licenses her photographs for editorial use. From 1997 until its closing in 2006 she was with the Star File Photo Agency. In 1999 Acid Test Productions/Thunder's Mouth Press published a hardcover monograph of her photographs, Live at the Fillmore East: A Photographic Memoir. In 2006 it went into a 6th softcover printing.

A skilled and veteran filmmaker, she has been producing and directing documentaries since 1969 with special emphasis on films about social issues as revealed through the lives of people in the arts. Her film PAINTING THE TOWN: The Illusionistic Murals of Richard Haas (1990) is about the architectural trompe l'oeil mural artist whose witty work is transforming the American urban landscape. It premiered at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival and screened in the New Directors/New Films Series co-sponsored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art. It won a Golden Gate Award at the 1990 San Francisco International Film Festival, a CINE Golden Eagle, and a Blue Ribbon and the "Emily" Best of Festival Award at the 1990 American Film and Video Festival. Its PBS broadcast was in 1991. In both 1990 and 1992 it was shown for a month on all long-haul flights to Hong Kong by Cathay Pacific Airlines, and in 1993 was licensed by British Airways. Her film CONVERSATIONS WITH WILLARD VAN DYKE, about the photographer (co-founder of Group f/64), filmmaker (The City, Valley Town) and first director of the Department of Film at the Museum of Modern Art, won the BEST in Fine Arts and the BRONZE Award at the 1981 San Francisco International Film Festival and was broadcast by the BBC, the Australian Broadcasting Corp., TV New Zealand, WNET Channel 13, NDR German TV and RAISAT in Italy. It is distributed by the Museum of Modern Art in New York as well as by New Day Films. All of her films, including others like WOO WHO? MAY WILSON (1969), IT HAPPENS TO US (1972), and NANA, MOM AND ME (1974), have been shown throughout the world in film festivals such as: London, Edinburgh, Nyon, Rotterdam, New Delhi, Sydney, Wellington, Tampere, Pesaro and the Festival dei Popoli in Florence, Italy, and have been showcased in Museums across the United States including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney, the Smithsonian Institution, the Chicago Art Institute, St. Louis Museum, Walker Art Center, High Museum in Atlanta, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Corcoran Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, Amon Carter Museum, Pacific Film Archive and the National Gallery of Art, among many others.

One of the original founders in 1971 of New Day Films, the pioneering self-distribution cooperative still going strong, she has received many production grants including the American Film Institute Independent Filmmaker Grant (1973); National Endowment for the Arts 1977, 1978, 1980, 1985, 1987; New York State Council on the Arts 1978, 1987; Ohio Joint Program in the Arts and Humanities 1985; Pinewood Foundation 1978; and John Hay Whitney 1978, 1980. From 1976-78 she taught film production at New York University, and in 1977 she was invited by Margaret Mead to lecture and show her film NANA, MOM AND ME at the Kin and Communities Symposium at the Smithsonian Institution. In 2007 it won an award for its pioneering role in autobiographical cinema at the Biografilm Festival in Bologna, Italy.

She lectures and shows her films frequently at museums, libraries, schools, colleges and universities. Between 1982 and 1987 she did programs under the auspices of the U.S. Information Service in New Zealand, Turkey, India, Indonesia, Hong Kong and the People's Republic of China. She is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in the East, and Who's Who in Entertainment. In addition, she speaks Italian fluently and since 1985 divides her time between New York and Italy where she is developing new projects. In 2003 she moved from Rome to Florence and has, currently, in the works: a feature length film based on her book, a video documentary on the cult of the olive and olive oil production, and on-going digital photography creation and experimentation with Adobe Photoshop and other programs on the Macintosh computer platform, in addition to preparing exhibitions and printing her photographs.

She had her first solo exhibition of her rock music pictures from June 18 to August 10, 1997 at the SoHo Triad Fine Arts Gallery in New York City. Her second show was from April 18 to May 17, 1998 at the Gomez Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland, and her third exhibition was from February 8 to May 12, 1999 in the corporate headquarters gallery of the music television cable channel VH1 Music First in the Viacom Building in NY. She had a photograph in the International Center for Photography's July 1999 Celebrity Auction; a selection of her work hangs in Hard Rock Cafes in NYC, St. Louis and Rome, Italy; in July 2000 her photograph of Tina Turner and Janis Joplin singing together was given as a gift to President Clinton and displayed in the Music Room at the White House. It is also in the private collection of Lenny Kravitz, John Sykes, Dr. Jonathan Samet and many others. Eleven of her pictures are featured in the permanent collection of the Experience Music Project Museum in Seattle. Two photographs were in the RockX-Posed Tour of The Kodak Rock Photography Collection which toured the U.S. in 2003. Her work is seen frequently on covers and in the booklets of compact disc reissues by Sony Music, Electra, Columbia, Grateful Dead Merchandising, Rhino and other record labels and in magazines like Mojo. She is also represented by the Govinda Gallery in Washington, D.C, the David Gallery in Los Angeles, the Monroe Gallery of Photography in Santa Fe, and Snap Galleries in Birmingham and London, England. Solo exhibitions include from April 6 to May 21, 2000 at SoHo Triad Fine Arts, October 7 to November 4, 2000 at Gomez, August 3 to September 8, 2001 at Govinda and from May 9 to June 23, 2002 at Soho Triad Fine Arts. Soho Triad went out of business in 2003 and she is now represented by the Staley-Wise Gallery in New York City. A selection of her work is in the group show Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era at the Tate Gallery Liverpool, UK which ran from May 27 to September 25, 2005, and is in its travelling version in Frankfurt, Germany and Vienna, Austria in 2006, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC in 2007. Recent exhibitions: One-woman shows at Snap Galleries June 4-July 30, 2005, Studio Art Centers International Gallery, Florence, Italy October 6-November 6, 2005, Tremaine Gallery, Lakeville, CT January 6-February 2, 2007, the David Gallery, Los Angeles, CA June 23-August 18, 2007. Group shows: The Official Bob Dylan Exhibition Proud Galleries, London, England 2005, The Sixties-Decade of Change Holden Luntz Gallery, Palm Beach 2005, Pink Floyd: Shine on you Crazy Diamond Redferns Gallery, London, England February to April 2006, Music and Fashion Staley-Wise Gallery, NYC May 23-August 17, 2007, Classic Black & White Photography The Arts Company, Nashville, TN November 3-22, 2007.

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