Sumner Jules Glimcher

Sumner Jules Glimcher was born on June 4th, 1924 in Boston, Mass. He was graduated from Harvard in 1948 with a degree in Nuclear Physics. He began his career as a Page at NBC where he spent six years in a variety of promotions working on all programs originating in New York. In 1954 he became the Administrator of Programming at Radio Free Europe in Munich, where he worked in all aspects of International Broadcasting. He returned to the US in 1957 where he created the first independent international voiced news agency for broadcasting, the precursor of CNN. Then he became the Director of International News for WOR and RKO General. He joined National Educational Television (precursor to PBS) where he was the Director of International Acquisitions, and then became the Director of the Center for Mass Communication at Columbia University where he also began his teaching career. After ten years of producing dozens of documentaries, he resigned to start his second company, Mass Communications, Inc., where he continued to create independent documentaries and became a consultant to the President of Harvard, the United Nations and for more than twenty years, the Consulate General of Japan. He has given Video Workshops on eleven luxury cruise liners. His films have earned more than three-dozen national and international awards. In 1988 he was named as the Director of the Department of ‘Film, Video and Broadcasting’ at NYU’s School of Continuing Education, where he was largely responsible for creating one of the finest film programs on the East Coat. He retired from NYU in 1998 and then established Westminster Productions, Inc., where he continues to produce films and shows documentaries for the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) in a pro bono series titled, “Meet The Filmmaker.” He has just completed his memoir titled, “A Filmmaker’s Journal.” It is available for the Kindle, and Kindle Desktop. To view a few of his notable films, visit amazon.com and search for "Sumner Jules Glimcher." For more information about Sumner and his work, please visit www.sumnerjulesglimcher.com or www.westminsterproductions.com