STORY
Filmmaker and professor Pearl Gluck’s provocative latest dramatic short film centers on Malke, a Holocaust survivor and sex-ed teacher who has been leading a secret life for decades: performing slam poetry on the Lower East Side. Castles in the Sky features commanding performances from actor Lynn Cohen, who died in 2020, and poet Venus Thrash, who died in 2021.
CAST & CREW
- Lynn Cohen
- Shoshana Berger
- Chana Horowitz
- Esther Mandel
- Shani Mendelevitch
Cast
- Pearl Gluck
- Thaddeus "Self" Williams
- Quentin Smith
- WU Hsuan-wei
Directors
INFORMATION
- Palinka Pictures
- Sparks Next
- Numeric Pictures
Production Companies
- United States of America
Production Countries
LANGUAGES
- English
- Yiddish