Glenn Holsten - Director Glenn Holsten is a producer and director of documentaries and performance programs. Recent documentary films include JIM IN BOLD, which harnesses the power of young voices to reveal the challenges and triumphs of being young and gay in America, Thomas Eakins: Scenes from Modern Life, a lyrical examination of America through the eyes of the 19th century painter, Gay Pioneers, which explores the start of the gay and lesbian civil rights movement, and Heartland , an intimate portrait of painter Bo Bartlett, an American artist who examines modern American life on an heroic scale. National PBS production credits include Mothers March, The Sounds of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Diary, The Great Comet Crash and Neptune All Night. He was director of An Angel In The Village (a portrait of Philadelphia-based artist Lily Yeh), which was broadcast on public television in May 1999. His Gay Bingo blends humor and compassion to tell the story of Philadelphia's premiere AIDS fundraising event. He directed MURAL, a video diary project involving four Philadelphia mural artists. In collaboration with the MIT Media Lab, Glenn developed a prototype for an interactive documentary titled Intersections at Third and Indiana. Many of his works have examined the complexities of life in his hometown of Philadelphia. Such programs include AKA Judy Garland Park, Pulling it Together in North Philadelphia,The Sounds of Philadelphia, First Person Philadelphia, Words In Place (a series of video-poems inspired by the city), and Philadelphia Diary, a feature-length fictional film inspired by the drama of everyday life in the city of Brotherly Love. Glenn is a recipient of the 1997 Pew Fellowship in the Arts, a 2000 Independence Foundation Fellowship in the Arts, and a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship. His works have been featured at the Banff, Dance on Camera, Houston, Columbus and New York Film Festivals, and have been awarded silver and gold awards from Corporation for Public Broadcasting for innovative television production. He has been honored with sixteen Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards. A collection of his work was exhibited in the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s 20th Century Video Gallery. On the international production scene, Glenn has directed documentaries in China, Portugal, Kenya, Northern Ireland, Poland, Bosnia and the Republic of Georgia. In 2000, he traveled to Mongolia, where he conducted a workshop for television professionals that explored creative methods for storytelling on television. Glenn is currently in post-production for The Polish Poster: Freedom on the Fence , a documentary film that examines the tumultuous history of Poland through the remarkable art form of the poster, and The General’s Daughter, which documents the dramatic and emotional journey of artist Lily Yeh as she travels from her residence in Philadelphia to her ancestral home in China to confront the ghosts that haunted her father -- Chinese war hero Pei Kao Yeh -- all of his life. |