[DVD] MY KID COULD PAINT THAT

She’s four years old. Her paintings sell for $25,000.

Inspiration or manipulation? You decide.

MY KID COULD PAINT THAT

Debuts on DVD on March 4, 2008

Culver City, CA (January 7, 2008) – An Official Selection of both the 2007 Toronto Film Festival and the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, My Kid Could Paint That documents the rise and fall of four-year old artist Marla Olmstead. Directed by Amir Bar-Lev, this Sony Pictures Classics Film will be released on DVD from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on March 4 for an SRP of $24.96.

According to her parents, Mark and Laura Olmstead, Marla began painting when she was only two. By the time she was four, her work had been exhibited at a gallery and she was profiled in The New York Times. But rumors that her father might be doing the paintings and crediting Marla led to a backlash against the family and, in order to clear their name, the Olmsteads invited filmmaker Amir Bar-Lev to document Marla’s technique over the course of a year. But, after spending countless hours with the Olmsteads, Bar-Lev finds himself unable to vouch for Marla’s talent.

Synopsis

In this thought-provoking documentary, Director Amir-Bar-Lev tracks the overnight celebrity of little Marla Olmstead, a toddler who creates gallery-worthy paintings on the dining room table of her family home. A media sensation by the age of four, critics compare her work with Jackson Pollock’s. Sales of her paintings reach $300,000. But, sadly, the bubble bursts. When a 2005 profile by “60 Minutes” suggests that Marla had help making her paintings, the finger is pointed at her father, an amateur artist and night manager at Frito Lay. Almost overnight, her family is ensnared in a web of accusation and denial – with the burden of proof placed squarely in their lap: Is Marla a child prodigy or an innocent victim of a hoax?

DVD BONUS FEATURES INCLUDE:

• “Back to Binghamton” – a mini-doc with Director Amir Bar-Lev that includes follow-up interviews, Sundance Q & A, Binghamton Q & A, deleted scenes, etc.
• “Kimmelman on Art” – a mini-doc with the New York Times art critic
• Audio Commentary

My Kid Could Paint That was directed by Amir Bar-Lev. Laura, Mark and Marla Olmstead participated in this documentary about their lives.

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