Pearl Gluck
Pearl Gluck is a director, writer, & producer whose work has been part of the Sundance Lab, and played at the Cannes Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, and PBS. The Turn Out is her first fiction feature film. Ten years after leaving her native Borough Park, Brooklyn, Pearl Gluck received a Fulbright grant to collect oral histories from Yiddish speakers in areas of Hungary once home to thriving Hassidic communities. At heart, she is a zamler, Yiddish for collector, an ethnographer. She continues to make both documentary and narrative films that explore themes of class, gender, and faith.
Pearl teaches Screenwriting and Directing at Penn State University and is currently developing a documentary project exploring specialty courts that offer an alternative, treatment-oriented approach for victims of sex trafficking.
Pearl has been awarded the Jewish Women’s Foundation NY Fellowship at Art Kibbutz where she will work on finishing her current documentary The Turn Out, that brings awareness to the realities of domestic sex trafficking at local truck stops set in Southern Appalachia. See Trailer HERE.
On August 28th Pearl participated at the Creative Queers Picnic celebrating the LGBTQA community. Guests were invited to eat, drink, and enjoy entertainment spread across the sprawling green grounds of Governor’s Island and Art Kibbutz summer studios. We shared food, met and greeted the artists & enjoy movement and audial work-in-progress performance of interdisciplinary artist Moriah Ella Mason as well as a sneak preview of Pearl Gluck's new film, Summer - a film about two Hasidic girls questioning their sexuality. Co-producers of the film held a reading related to the film. She also presented her films to the Jewish Women's Foundation NY's group on their field trip.
Pearl teaches Screenwriting and Directing at Penn State University and is currently developing a documentary project exploring specialty courts that offer an alternative, treatment-oriented approach for victims of sex trafficking.
Pearl has been awarded the Jewish Women’s Foundation NY Fellowship at Art Kibbutz where she will work on finishing her current documentary The Turn Out, that brings awareness to the realities of domestic sex trafficking at local truck stops set in Southern Appalachia. See Trailer HERE.
On August 28th Pearl participated at the Creative Queers Picnic celebrating the LGBTQA community. Guests were invited to eat, drink, and enjoy entertainment spread across the sprawling green grounds of Governor’s Island and Art Kibbutz summer studios. We shared food, met and greeted the artists & enjoy movement and audial work-in-progress performance of interdisciplinary artist Moriah Ella Mason as well as a sneak preview of Pearl Gluck's new film, Summer - a film about two Hasidic girls questioning their sexuality. Co-producers of the film held a reading related to the film. She also presented her films to the Jewish Women's Foundation NY's group on their field trip.
