Nina Rosenblum

Nina Rosenblum (born September 20, 1950) is an American, Academy Award nominated, documentary film and television producer and director. Italian Fotoleggendo magazine said Rosenblum “is known in the United States as one of the most important directors of the investigative documentary”.

Her works as director and producer include Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II, PBS, (nominated in 1992 for Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature); The Untold West: The Black West, TBS, (1993 Best Screenwriting Emmy Award); America and Lewis Hine, PBS, (broadcast nationwide in 1984 on PBS and winner of Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival); The Skin I’m In (broadcast in 2000 on Showtime/NY Times Television) and Ordinary Miracles: The Photo League’s New York (released theatrically in New York and Los Angeles in 2013).

After attending Music and Art High School, Rosenblum earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Cooper Union and her Master of Fine Arts degree from Queens College after attending both Philadelphia School of the Arts and Yale’s Summer School for the Arts. She also received a Mellon Foundation Grant to attend NYU’s Graduate Film School. She is the daughter of photographer Walter Rosenblum and photographic historian Naomi Rosenblum, winners of the International Center for Photography’s Lifetime Infinity Award.

Rosenblum’s "America and Lewis Hine", voice of Hine by Jason Robards, about the pioneer photographer Lewis Hine who documented child labor and the building of America from 1900-1940, which premiered at the 1984 Sundance Film Festival where it won Special Jury Prize and was broadcast nationally on PBS. Through the Wire, narrated by Susan Sarandon, produced in association with Amnesty International, about the High Security Unit in the Federal Correctional Institution in Lexington, KY and the international movement to shut it down, premiered at the 1992 Berlin Film Festival and won Best Documentary at the 1992 Munich Film Festival.

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