Sharyn C. Blumenthal
Writer / Director

Ms. Blumenthal will premier her indie feature this spring called TAKE TWO, a dark comedy about bad choices, worse choices, power politics, and personal redemption, starring Joyce Hyser and Albie Selznick. TAKE TWO comes fast on the heels of Blumenthal’s film WALKING TO WALDHEIM, which premiered at the American Film Institute, screened at the Palm Springs Film Festival, was selected as a finalist at the Hollywood Film Festival, and stars Emmy Award Winner Doris Roberts, Tony Award Winner John Randolph, comic Taylor Negron, and Broadway and TV veteran Kaye Ballard.

Salient in Ms. Blumenthal’s recent list of credits is the Cine Eagle Award winning film THE POET'S WIFE, starring Rachel Chagall, which was selected to represent the U.S. at film festivals in Spain, Germany, and Italy, and also competed stateside at CineWomen Film Festival. For a Showtime Network anthology series, Ms. Blumenthal wrote and directed three films: WOMAN ON A TRAIN, THE PHOTOGRAPHER, and AS ALWAYS MADELAINE (which also screened at the New York Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, and featured Viveka Davis and Diane Salinger). Ms. Blumenthal’s film for Cal Repertory’s production of LIVING AFTER MIDNIGHT won a Drama-Logue Best Director Award and was a Los Angeles Times’ Pick of the Week.

As a documentary filmmaker, Ms. Blumenthal has just completed THE PHOENIX EFFECT about the transference of traumatic memory on 2nd and 3rd generation Holocaust survivors. THE PHOENIX EFFECT was partially funded by The Leonard Nimoy Foundation. The Los Angeles Holocaust Museum sponsored a premier screening at The American Film Institute. This fall the film screened at the National Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC in celebration of the Museum’s tenth anniversary year and caps Ms. Blumenthal’s series of award winning documentaries, including PEARL'S GARDEN (Chicago Festival, Women In The Directing Chair), TOWARD STILLNESS (PBS, Individual Artists Grants) ROCK AND HAWK (California Council of the Humanities funded film on the poet Robinson Jeffers and his wife Una) and CHILDREN OF THE TOWERS (now a standing exhibit at the Los Angeles Watts Towers Arts Center).Blumenthal’s black comedy ONE GIRL STRAIGHT/ONE GIRL GAY received a staged reading at the Stella Adler Theater; she has recently adapted the work into a screenplay.

A former Directing Fellow at the American Film Institute, Blumenthal also received her MFA in Film and Television from Temple University. Articles about and reviews of her work have appeared in The American Cinematographer, The Los Angeles Times, The LA Weekly, and The Journal of The University Film & Video Association. Blumenthal is a Professor of Film & Electronic Arts Department at Cal State University, Long Beach.

She is represented by literary manager, Ann McDermott

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