Jacqueline Rosenthal

Jacqueline Elyse Rosenthal makes films for those who have been silenced and forgotten. Her thesis film BACKLOG (Cannes official selection) about the National Rape Kit Backlog won the 29th Annual DGA Award Grand Jury Prize & the Student-Emmy for Best Drama Series from the Television Academy Foundation in 2023. The film screened at over 85 film festivals, awarded best film at 34 and winning the Panavision New Filmmaker Grant. The Feature Length Script has earned high marks as a Fellowship participant of the 2024 Athena Writer's Lab, Semi-Finalist on the 2025 Athena List, Second Rounder at Austin Film Festival, and Deadline Winner of the Empowering Women Screenplay competition. 

After BACKLOG, Jacqueline received the 2024 Innovation Industry Grant to further Virtual Production alongside Sony Pictures and the University of Southern California's USC@ETC (Emerging Technology Center) for her sci-fi environmental film, EUROPA, about her deep concerns about commercial private space and colonizing of other planets and moons that belong to no one. As a student, the film caught the attention of Executives at SONY, based on its ambition and environmental cause, and was produced by a fully female Graduate Student Producing Team, as a recipient of the 2024 NFMLA NewNarratives Grant and filming a 31-day Virtual Production shoot on SONY's Stage 7 on the Culver Lot, helming a cast and crew of over 1,000 spread over 4 continents as her final MFA student film.

Jacqueline enjoys teaching the next generation of filmmakers in directing, screenwriting and Virtual production. She believes education should not be gate-kept or only available to the wealthy. Everyone has a story to tell and should be given the tools to realize their dreams.

As a graduate of USC's School of Cinematic Arts MFA program in Film and Television Production, Jacqueline Student Assisted 14 courses and found her love of Producing and Development in internships at Mandalay Pictures and Circle M+P Management, and now gives back in her volunteer board position on the Reel Champions, a mentorship community for women and non-binary filmmakers. Jacqueline is dedicated to the future of cinema and the integrity of original storytelling and has 4 Features and a Series in Development.

She is repped by 3 Arts, Culture Creative, and Del Shaw.