Pamela S.K.Glasner

News, People You Should Know — By Buddy Sampson on July 13, 2021 at 7:00 pm

People You Should Know

Pamela S.K.Glasner

The Writer/Producer and Heroine Stands Up for Senior Citizens

By Buddy Sampson

Aging is one of the most inevitable journeys we’ll face in our lifetimes. If we’re fortunate enough to survive and enjoy our Golden Years, the challenges that come along with aging become readily apparent, including cognitive loss and physical deterioration, which makes the elderly prime targets for unscrupulous operators, resulting in wide-spread elder abuse, including financial exploitation. Pamela S. K. Glasner is an advocate for the elderly and has made aging, specifically financial abuse, her cause and mission.

The published author of historical fiction and non-fiction is a filmmaker, social advocate, a contributor to the Huffington Post and a feature writer for Cabaret Scenes Magazine, according to her bio on IMDB.com. “I really enjoyed that,” said Pamela S.K. Glasner of writing for the Huffington Post. “I actually got to meet Ariana Huffington. I have a mutual friend, so when I met Ariana in Manhattan one day, I said ‘you and I have a mutual friend and I’d really love to write for the Huffington Post.’ She said ‘okay’ she called some guy over and said, ‘give him your information.’” And voila! She became a contributing writer for the Huffington Post.  Ms. Glasner also produced a film, her debut, “Last Will and Embezzlement,” a critically- acclaimed documentary about the financial exploitation of the elderly, which featured Hollywood great Mickey Rooney. The film, which was inspired by true-life events in her own family, premiered in Manhattan to a standing-room-only audience.

Pamela also produced “Madder Than a Full Moon Dog,” a rockumentary film based on her company’s annual heavy-metal music festival in Leeds, England. In addition, she has two films that are slated for production, “The Calicoon,” a Hitchcock-style thriller/psychological horror and “Finding Emmaus” (www.lodestarre.com), a docudrama which explores the treatment and mistreatment of the mentally ill over the course of about 350 years and how society ostracizes and victimizes those deemed to be “different” or “less than.”

Born in New York City, Ms. Glasner moved to Connecticut with her family when she was eighteen and graduated from Eastern Connecticut State University with a degree in English and secondary education, with concentrations in psychology and sociology.  A proud member of the Writer’s Guild of America and the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, she has done extensive historical research in the United States and the UK and is a member of the Connecticut Historical Society.

However, Ms. Glasner’s cause and passion to help make a societal difference is deeply rooted in her commitment to senior citizens, advocating for those that are underserved, and sometime lack a voice or a definitive organization committed to the elderly- who have rights- to dignity, justice, security, respect, and freedom from various types of abuse. “There are a lot of people who are vulnerable who aren’t necessarily elderly,” said Ms. Glasner. “But financial exploitation of the elderly and vulnerable has literally become a cottage industry in this country for a lot of reasons. It’s something that you can do from your kitchen, so you don’t even have to pay a whole lot of expenses to run a business. If you, do it right, you can do it with impunity and stay right under the radar of the police and literally billions of dollars are either illegally or illicitly or both, taken each year. So, my goal, my mission is to put as many of these vultures as possible out of business.”

But how did a writer from Connecticut manage to land a Hollywood legend to participate in her film? “It was from a handwritten letter,” laughed Ms. Glasner, who is also working on her post-graduate degree in Literature and Creative Writing at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “Mickey Rooney’s agent was in Manhattan, and he had to be the last agent in the United States that didn’t have e-mail. So, I literally had to write this man a hard copy letter and send it through snail mail and three days later, he called me. He said, ‘Mickey really likes the idea of your project and he’d be happy to be in it.’ I made him say that three times, because I didn’t believe him.”

The prospect of interviewing Mickey Rooney was fascinating for the talented writer, producer and now, filmmaker. “I got to meet him, I got to interview him the second time,” she said, of Rooney’s appearances in the documentary. “He’s such a kick.”

Ms. Glasner speaks on panels across the country and has received tremendous response and feedback. “I’ve never done an event where people weren’t thoroughly engaged,” she said.

Pamela S.K. Glasner is an everyday heroine. But she lists her grandmother, who is deceased as one of her primary inspirations. Her grandmother’s strength, courage and faith taught her that “nothing and no one can keep you from your hearts desire without your permission and your cooperation.”

She currently resides in rural Connecticut where she continues to work on several projects, including The Lodestarre Series.
Pamela S.K. Glasner is changing hearts and minds as she fights for the rights of senior citizens and the vulnerable. She is a heroine, and that’s why she’s one of the People You Should Know.

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