David M. Rosenthal directed and co-wrote the independent romantic comedy Falling Up, starring Rachael Leigh Cook and Joseph Cross. In 2004, Rosenthal co-wrote and directed his first feature film, See This Movie, which premiered at the Aspen Comedy Film Festival. It was the first feature produced by the Weitz brothers' (About a Boy, American Pie) prodco, Depth of Field. See This Movie, which starred Seth Meyers and John Cho, won the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Malibu Film Festival and was released in theaters in 2006. It has since been widely seen via DVD and cable.
As a director, Rosenthal has many commercial credits. His notable spots include Master Cabbie, which won an AICP Award, a Merit Award and was a finalist at both the London International Advertising Awards and the Clio Awards. As a young man, Rosenthal's love of writing and film led him to the American Film Institute, where he received his master's degree. A year after graduating, he sold his first short film, Absence (which he also shot), to Atom Films. The short was purchased by networks around the world including Canal+, HBO Latin America, PBS, Encore and Starz. The film made the festival rounds and was a finalist at the USA Film Festival and the Slamdance festival in Park City, Utah. Rosenthal's second short film, Waiting for Anna, was chosen as a quarterfinalist out of 1000 films in Chrysler's Million Dollar Film Festival and received distribution through Hypnotic.com.
Rosenthal's love of documentary filmmaking began when he traveled to China for National Geographic's Explorer to film a documentary about Three Gorges Dam, the largest and most disparaged man-made project ever built. His second documentary, entitled Dylan's Run, which he produced and directed, followed the campaign trail of Dylan Glenn. Glenn made history by becoming the first black Republican to run for a congressional seat in the Deep South since Reconstruction. The documentary made its debut at the Film Arts Festival in San Francisco before being screened at many other festivals, including Amsterdam, Sonoma and Toronto.
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