producer & Director
Nina Rosenblum
Nina Rosenblum has spent forty years making films about people history nearly forgot. Her work has aired on PBS, HBO, Showtime, Canal+, Channel Four, and WDR. She was nominated for an Academy Award. She co-founded Daedalus Productions, Inc. in New York in 1980 — not as a business, but as a commitment.
They Fight With Cameras is her most personal film. Walter Rosenblum was her father.
Filmmaker. Historian. Witness.
Nina Rosenblum is an Academy Award-nominated producer and director of documentary films and television, and President of Daedalus Productions, Inc., a not-for-profit production company based in New York City. She has produced and directed fifteen films for PBS, HBO, TBS, NY Times Television, Showtime, ABC, and NBC. Her co-production partners include Channel Four/UK, WDR/Germany, La Sept/France, Canal+/Spain, and SBS/Australia.
Rosenblum is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Directors Guild of America, Women in Film and Television, and the International Documentary Association. Her films have been the subject of retrospectives in Italy and Spain. She holds an M.F.A. from Queens College, C.U.N.Y., and has taught documentary production at Columbia University, Hunter College, and N.Y.U.
Her latest film:
They Fight With Cameras
The project began in 2016 as a traveling photography exhibition. Over nine years, Nina and her co-director Daniel Allentuck uncovered rare materials — 16mm reels, Signal Corps archives, and a trove of letters Walter had written to his first wife from the front. Letters that had never been seen.
The result is a 55-minute documentary narrated by Liev Schreiber, endorsed by the USC Shoah Foundation, and recognized at twelve international film festivals.
Filmography
Through Daedalus Productions, Nina has produced and directed films that have shaped public understanding of American history — from civil rights to labor movements to war. Her work has been broadcast internationally and recognized with awards spanning four decades.
Walter and Nina Rosenblum.
“Growing up with my father, Walter Rosenblum, was a wonderfully enriching experience. When I was still quite young, he would sit me on a stool in his darkroom and I would help him print his photographs.”
— Nina Rosenblum