My Kid Could Paint That

Marla Olmstead was hailed as a prodigy at 4 years-old when her paintings – compared to Kandinsky, Pollock and even Picasso – started selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars. When Marla sprang to fame her parents were sucked into the media frenzy, before being halted in their tracks by a ’60 Minutes’ piece which cast doubt over the authenticity of her paintings and the integrity of the family. In the face of the notoriety and backlash – which included personal assaults and threats – the family turned to director Amir Bar Lev to exonerate them. Is Marla a genius of abstract expressionism, a tiny charlatan, or an exploited child whose parents have sold her out for the glare of the media and the lure of the almighty dollar?