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| birth_name   = David Mitchell Rosenthal
| birth_date   = {{Birth date and age|1969|03|23}}
| birth_place  = New York City, New York
| occupation  = [[Film director]], [[Screenwriter]] and [[film producer|Producer]] 
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'''David Mitchell Rosenthal''' (born March 23, 1969)<ref>the most accurate source of Rosenthal's birth date cited on his author=IMDB.com.--></ref> American writer, director and producer. He is best known for the films ''[[Falling Up (film)|Falling Up]]'' and ''[[See This Movie]]'', as well as writing and directing the forthcoming ''[[Janie Jones (film)|Janie Jones]]''.

==Personal life==
Rosenthal was born in [[New York City, New York]], the son of Dr. Mitchell S. Rosenthal, founder and Chairman of [[Phoenix House]] and cookbook author Ellen Wright. 

He was educated at [[Pomfret School]] in Connecticut and went on to graduate with a [[Master of Fine Arts]] in Poetry from [[Sarah Lawrence College]] and a Master of Fine Arts in Filmmaking from the [[American Film Institute]].<ref>{{cite web | author=IMDB.com | title=David M. Rosenthal - Biography | url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1270033/bio | publisher=[[IMDB]] | date=2010-03-06 | accessdate=2010-03-06 }}</ref>

==Career==
===Early career===
Rosenthal’s career with film began with writing and photography at a young age. Growing up in New York City, he began shooting and studying photography in high school, and started writing soon after. He earned a Masters in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and subsequently began publishing poetry in such literary magazines as [[The Paris Review]]. David’s first book of poetry was published in 2000. In the same year he became a member of The [[Actors Studio]] playwrights unit with [[Mark Rydell]].

Rosenthal’s love of writing and film soon led him to the American Film Institute, where he received another Masters degree. A year after graduating, his first short film, Absence was bought and distributed to networks around the world including Canal+, HBO Latin America, PBS, Encore, and Starz. 

His documentary feature, entitled Dylan’s Run, which he produced and directed, followed the campaign trail of Dylan Glenn, who made history by becoming the first black republican to run for a congressional seat in the Deep South since Reconstruction. 

Rosenthal also has a number of commercial directing credits including ''Master Cabbie'' which won an AICP Award, a Merit Award and was a finalist at the London International Advertising Awards and the Clio’s.

===Recent work===
Rosenthal’s first feature film, ''[[See This Movie]]'', which he directed and co-wrote, premiered at the [[Aspen Comedy Festival]]. It was the first feature produced by Depth of Field, a production company operated by [[Chris Weitz]] and [[Paul Weitz (filmmaker)|Paul Weitz]] (''[[About a Boy (film)|About a Boy]]'', ''[[Antz]]'', ''[[American Pie (film)|American Pie]]''). ''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 January 2006.

In 2008 Rosenthal directed the independent romantic comedy ''[[Falling Up (film)|Falling Up]]'', which was released by [[Anchor Bay Entertainment|Anchor Bay]] and [[Starz Media|Starz]] in early 2010.

===''Janie Jones''===
In October 2009 Rosenthal finished principal photography on his film [[Janie Jones]]. The film is inspired by his experience of meeting his daughter for the first time when she was eleven and he was thirty. Starring Abigail Breslin, Alessandro Nivola and Elisabeth Shue, the film follows the story of a down-on-his-luck indie rock star who 
meets his 13-year-old daughter who he never knew when her mother (Elisabeth Shue) drops her off en route to rehab.

The film premiered at the [[Toronto International Film Festival]] on September 17, 2010.

==References==
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==External links==
*{{imdb name|id=1270033|name=David M. Rosenthal}}

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