Amalie R. Rothschild
Amalie R. Rothschild is an award winning filmmaker and photographer noted for her documentaries about social issues as revealed through the lives of people in the arts, and for her music photographs from the Fillmore East, Woodstock and other seminal rock events from 1968 to 1974. She is a co-founder of New Day Films, and author of "Live at the Fillmore East: A Photographic Memoir." While based in New York City, since 1983 she lives about 7 months of the year in Italy.
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Conversations with Willard Van Dyke
Directed by Amalie R. Rothschild • Documentary • With Willard Van Dyke, Ralph Steiner, Joris Ivens • 1980 • 58 minutes
In 1935 photographer Willard Van Dyke moved to New York with the belief that films “could change the world” and began a new career as a filmmaker. His name soon became synonymou...
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It Happens to Us
Directed by Amalie R. Rothschild • Documentary • 1971 • 32 minutes
Made in 1971 when a medically safe legal abortion was available in only one state, "It Happens to Us" was produced to bring to public attention the sometimes shattering, and always difficult, personal situations underlying a woma...
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Nana, Mom and Me
Directed by Amalie R. Rothschild • Documentary • 48 minutes
Using home movies, family photographs and direct interviews, the filmmaker looks at the mother-daughter ties in 3 generations of her own family and in the process explores the classic female problem faced by her namesake artist mother: ...
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Woo Who? May Wilson
Directed by Amalie R. Rothschild • Documentary • With May Wilson, Meredith Monk • 1969 • 34 minutes
When her husband informs her, after 40 years of marriage, that his future plans no longer include her, May Wilson, age 60, former "wife-mother-housekeeper-cook" and a grandmother, moves to New Yor...
