My Kid Could Paint That (2007)
She's four years old. Her paintings sell for $25,000. American dream or art world scheme?
A look at the work and surprising success of a four-year-old girl whose paintings have been compared to the likes of Picasso and has raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars.
- Date of release
- 2007-10-05
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (51)
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Amir Bar-Lev
Casting
- Laura Olmstead — Self
- Mark Olmstead — Self
- Marla Olmstead — Self
- Elizabeth Cohen — Self
- Anthony Brunelli — Self
- Amir Bar-Lev — Self
- Zane Olmstead — Self
- Michael Kimmelman — Self
Interesting facts
My Kid Could Paint That is a 2007 documentary film by director Amir Bar-Lev. The movie follows the early artistic career of Marla Olmstead, a young girl from Binghamton, New York who gains fame first as a child prodigy painter of abstract art, and then becomes the subject of controversy concerning whether she truly completed the paintings herself or did so with her parents' assistance and/or direction. The film was bought by Sony Pictures Classics in 2007 after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival.
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