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Persona Non Grata (2015) is his most recent feature film.
Recently Cellin has turned his eye toward directing for television. Please join us for what will surely be a fascinating conversation and evening.
RSVP with “Oct Movie Night” in the subject line. He also directed the U.S. portion for Lorelei (2005) and the non-Japanese segments for the 20th Century Boys trilogy (2008-2009).
In 2009, he made his debut as a film director with Saidoweizu/Sideways (2009), then co-wrote and co-directed Oba: The Last Samurai (2011).
Using his multi-cultural heritage to its fullest, he has spent the past 28+ years in film production with a particular emphasis on Japan. First advertising agency producer, to commercial director, then moving to films as an assistant director to Ridley Scott, Roger Spottiswoode, Mike Figgis, Sean Cunnigham and Robert Zemeckis among others.
Growing up in Japan and currently based in Los Angeles, Cellin has worked as assistant director on several blockbuster films and as director of such feature-length films as Saidoweizu/Sideways (2009), the Japanese adaptation of the American original set in California wine country, and Persona Non Grata (2015), the real-life story of Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese diplomat who at the start of World War II defied his government and issued transit visas to save 6,000 Jewish refugees in Lithuania.
In 2018 he was selected as a director fellow for the CBS Directing Initiative, completing the program the following year; and again in 2019 as a director finalist in the NBC Emerging Director Program. Cellin believes his multi-cultural upbringing and his own diverse ‘composition’ gives Cellin an innate sensibility for things both Eastern and Western.
He served as a co-chair of the Asian American Committee at the Directors Guild of America through 2020, of which he has been a member since 1992.
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Cellin Gluck
Cellin Gluck is a director known for Persona Non Grata (2015), Oba The Last Samurai (2011), Sideways – aka Saidoweizu (2009) and Lorelei (2005) .As an assistant director/production manager he is known for Godzilla (2014), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), Transformers (2007), Remember the Titans (2000) and Contact (1997) among others.
Using his multi-cultural heritage to its fullest, he has spent the past 28+ years in film production with a particular emphasis on Japan. Convinced early by his father that archaeology was a hobby best followed by those with time and money, Cellin decided to follow a much more responsible and certain path to success, the Film Business.
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. Convinced early by his father that archaeology was a hobby best followed by those with time and money, Cellin decided to follow a much more responsible and certain path to success, the Film Business.
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About the Filmmaker
CELLIN GLUCK was born in Wakayama prefecture to American parents Jay and Sumi Gluck. Born and spending his 'formative years' in Japan and Iran, Cellin graduated from the Canadian Academy in Kobe before attending the Claremont Colleges, graduating from Pitzer College with honors from the Pomona College Theatre Department.
Born and spending his ‘formative years’ in Japan and Iran, Cellin graduated from the Canadian Academy in Kobe before attending the Claremont Colleges, graduating from Pitzer College with honors from the Pomona College Theatre Department.
He spent his “formative years” in Japan, except for three years in Iran, where his archaeologist father and textile historian mother’s work took the family.
After graduating high school from the Canadian Academy in Kobe, Cellin moved to the US and attended the Claremont Colleges, graduating from Pitzer College with honors from the Pomona College Theatre Department.
Growing up in Japan with a Jewish New Yorker father and a Japanese American mother from California (via wartime “relocation” in Rohwer, AR), Cellin has used his bicultural heritage to its fullest, spending the majority of his career to date in film production with a particular emphasis on Japan.
While he has specialized in producing/directing U.S.–Japan co-productions for most of his career, Cellin has also worked as an assistant director on Hollywood productions, such as Transformers (2007), Remember the Titans (2000), and Contact (1997), and as production manager on films like Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) and Godzilla (2014).
Allowing him to bridge cultures visually, viscerally and artistically as well as emotionally.
Let’s Go to the Movies with Filmmaker Cellin Gluck
J-Sei At the Movies: Meet Filmmaker Cellin Gluck
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.