Pearl Gluck is an American filmmaker and professor. Her films, which
explores themes of class, gender, and faith, have appeared as a part
of the Sundance Lab, as well as played at Cannes Film Festival,
Tribeca Film Festival, and on PBS.Gluck grew up in Borough Park,
Brooklyn, New York, where she was raised in a Hasidic household. She
completed her schooling with an MFA from City College of New York and
a bachelor's degree from Brandeis University. Ten years after leaving
her childhood home (1996), she was given a Fulbright grant in order to
collect stories from the Yiddish speaking people in Hungary, an area
that was once home to thriving Hasidic communities. In 1998 Gluck
appeared in documentary, A Life Apart: Hasidism in America, which was
directed and produced by Oren Rudavsky and Menachem Daum. Since then
she has taught at Ohio University, Indiana University, Emory
University, and Rutgers University, where she led courses in
screenwriting, production, directing, film criticism, film studies,
and Jewish studies. She joined the College of Communication at Penn
State University in 2014, where she is now an assistant professor and
teaching courses in screenwriting, directing, and producing.During
Gluck's film career she has created an assortment of films, both
documentary and narrative, which have been played at multiple film
festivals. She produces her films through Palinka Pictures.In 2000
Gluck was awarded a Sundance Producer's Lab Fellowship and in 2001 a
Sundance Festival mentorship, which she would use to begin production
on her first individual project, Divan. Divan was Gluck's first
feature-length documentary, in which she returns to her Hungarian
roots to find a couch, on which esteemed rabbis once slept, that has
been in her family for years. Through this search and over the course
of the film you see Gluck explore her true identity and get a glimpse
into Hasidic culture.
explores themes of class, gender, and faith, have appeared as a part
of the Sundance Lab, as well as played at Cannes Film Festival,
Tribeca Film Festival, and on PBS.Gluck grew up in Borough Park,
Brooklyn, New York, where she was raised in a Hasidic household. She
completed her schooling with an MFA from City College of New York and
a bachelor's degree from Brandeis University. Ten years after leaving
her childhood home (1996), she was given a Fulbright grant in order to
collect stories from the Yiddish speaking people in Hungary, an area
that was once home to thriving Hasidic communities. In 1998 Gluck
appeared in documentary, A Life Apart: Hasidism in America, which was
directed and produced by Oren Rudavsky and Menachem Daum. Since then
she has taught at Ohio University, Indiana University, Emory
University, and Rutgers University, where she led courses in
screenwriting, production, directing, film criticism, film studies,
and Jewish studies. She joined the College of Communication at Penn
State University in 2014, where she is now an assistant professor and
teaching courses in screenwriting, directing, and producing.During
Gluck's film career she has created an assortment of films, both
documentary and narrative, which have been played at multiple film
festivals. She produces her films through Palinka Pictures.In 2000
Gluck was awarded a Sundance Producer's Lab Fellowship and in 2001 a
Sundance Festival mentorship, which she would use to begin production
on her first individual project, Divan. Divan was Gluck's first
feature-length documentary, in which she returns to her Hungarian
roots to find a couch, on which esteemed rabbis once slept, that has
been in her family for years. Through this search and over the course
of the film you see Gluck explore her true identity and get a glimpse
into Hasidic culture.
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