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Oct 7, 2021 · Friday, October 15, 2021 – 6:30 pm on Zoom. J-Sei’s filmmaker series continues online with a special guest appearance by writer-producer-director Cellin Gluck, who will discuss his decades-long career in film production. Growing up in Japan and currently based in Los Angeles, Cellin has worked as assistant director on several blockbuster ...
- Quiet Heroism of An Ordinary Man
- Historical Setting
- Shot in Poland, Screened in Lithuania
Gluck's goal in directing the film was not to narrate the story of some larger-than-life Japanese hero but to explore the process by which an ordinary individual, faced with a terrible dilemma, can come to a heroic decision. “It's like they say: Extraordinary things happen to ordinary people. Heroes are born when ordinary people respond to extraord...
In June 1940, as hostilities spread in the wake of Hitler’s invasion of Poland, the Soviet Union annexed Lithuania. With most of Western Europe under Nazi control and the majority of countries barring immigration of Jews from Nazi-occupied Europe, thousands of desperate Lithuanian and Polish Jews descended on the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithu...
At its world premiere in Kaunas last October, Persona Non Gratareceived a five-minute standing ovation. “One elderly lady [in the audience] gave me a scolding,” Gluck recalls with a smile. “It doesn’t look like Kaunas!’ she complained. ‘Why didn’t you film it in Kaunas?’” Despite her chiding, Gluck is glad he was able to shoot the movie in Poland, ...
May 20, 2020 · 5. Griffin’s grandfather, Jay Gluck, was a prominent American Jewish archaeologist and historian. Jay described himself as a “Jew by temper; Buddhist [by] inclination.”. Griffin’s grandmother, Sumi Hiramoto Gluck, was incarcerated in an internment camp during World War II in Rohwer, Arkansas.
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Cellin Gluck (I) Cellin Gluck. Cellin Hiramoto Gluck is a Japanese American director known for Persona Non Grata, Oba The Last Samurai, Sideways - aka Saidoweizu and Lorelei. As an assistant director/production manager he is known for Godzilla, Memoirs of a Geisha, Transformers, Remember the Titans, Contact and Black Rain among others.
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Specialties: Assistant Director, Unit Prodution Manger, Director<br>Directors Guild of… · Experience: Protean Image Group / P.I.G. · Location: Los Angeles County · 500+ connections on LinkedIn.
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Sep 1, 2016 · Cellin Gluck, director of “Persona Non Grata: The Story of Chiune Sugihara.” photo by Stanlee Mirador Cellin Gluck is not your typical Japanese American. He was actually born in Wakayama Prefecture to a Jewish American father from New York, Jay Gluck, and a Japanese American mother, Sumi Hiramoto Gluck, who was born and raised in Lodi, Calif.
