Documentary Editing

17Analyses of Two Feature Documentaries

My Kid Could Paint That (2007)

Directed by Amir Bar-Lev

Edited by Michael Levine and John Walters

My Kid Could Paint That is a 2007 documentary that tells the story of Marla Olmstead, a 4-year-old girl whose abstract paintings begin selling for tens of thousands of dollars on the New York art market. The film, as rendered by its director Amir Bar-Lev and editors John Walter and Michael Levine, contains a fascinating narrative about what happens when the true authorship of the paintings is questioned; ...