My Kid Could Paint That
A Child Prodigy or a Hoax
A sensation at Sundance and hailed as "the best documentary of this or any other year”, filmmaker Amir Bar Lev's documentary My Kid Could Paint That chronicles a four year-old named Marla Olmstead whose paintings were selling for tens of thousands of dollars with an eighty-plus person waiting list. During the filming of the movie, an exposé on 60 Minutes suggested that Marla was not the sole creator of her work and that it was in fact her father that was helping her create these pieces and suddenly the story of a miraculous talent started to crumble. The family, however, denied the accusations saying that Marla was a talent all her own. Bar Lev included his own doubts into the documentary and we see those as he interrogates his subjects and reveals parts of himself.






