Welcome. My name is Gleb Osatinski and I am the writer and director.
Here I can share my story and vision for bringing my memory film to life. If RESENTMENT moves you, please click below. Thanks
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT.
My latest film project, Resentment, is based on my childhood memories of my antisemitic experiences growing up in Ukraine, and how they impacted my relationship with my father.
The film draws on issues of cultural identity and presents a specific snapshot of a political time and place, and how those external forces influence our inner lives and individuality. Telling this story now, and returning to that time, also helps me personally...
With this film, I am finally ready to go home. I realize that I could not make the journey with out the support of my wife, and daughter; and, I am more than grateful for the professional and financial support of my extended film family. Resentment takes place in 1987, in a world long gone. The story is about the values of hope, honor, and decency, that conflict with the cold truths of human weaknesses and prejudice, making the narrative within Resentment even more important today.
Principal RESENTMENT TEAM MEMBERS
Director of Photography: Vitautas Katkus – Born in 1991 in Vilnius, Lithuania, Vytautas Katkus graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in cinematography from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. He works as cinematographer in movies as well in video art projects. He won best young cinematographer award by Lithuanian Association of Cinematographers in 2014 and 2015. Since 2016 he is a member of Lithuanian Association of Cinematographers. Kolektyviniai sodai (Community Gardens), his debut short film, is selected at the 58th Semaine de la Critique. His most recent short film Techno Mama had a world premiere at Venice Film Festival, 2021.
Executive Producer: Katharina Otto-Bernstein - Emmy nominated filmmaker Katharina Otto-Bernstein is known for the acclaimed HBO documentaries The Prize of Everything (Sundance -Emmy Nominated), Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (Sundance, Berlinale - Two Emmy Nominations), Beautopia (Director, Sundance -Winner Chicago Film Festival) and Absolute Wilson (Director, Berlinale – Winner Basel Art Film of the Year). Otto-Bernstein is a producer of the 2021 German fiction feature Sea Glow, starring Ulrich Tukur (The White Ribbon) and Sibel Kikilli (Game of Thrones) and co-producer of the 2020 Amazon Prime series Für Umme and directed When Night falls over Moscow (ARD), The Need for Speed (Discovery, BBC), Coming Home (NDR), The Second Greatest Story Ever Told starring Malcolm McDowell and Mira Sorvino (Co-director, BBC). She is the author of Absolute Wilson – The Biography of theater director Robert Wilson and has worked for Karol Armitage as a dramaturge in theater and dance. Other nominations and awards include Critics Choice Award, Cinema Eye Award, GLAAD Award, Grierson Award and a Hugo from the Chicago International Film Festival. She is a member of the Writers Guild of America, the international and national Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. A graduate of Columbia College and Columbia Film School, she was honored by her alma mater with the Columbia University Alumni Medal of Achievement in 2009 and is currently serving as chair of the Dean’s Council of the School of the Arts.
Executive Producer: J. Dixon Byrne - Dixon studied at HB Studios and lives in NYC. He originally performed as a member of The Villanova Theater Group, on local New York City stages and in TV commercials. Dixon was Executive Producer of Lodge Kerrigan's first award-winning feature clean, shaven. He also is a co-producer of The Plagiarist, by James N. Kienitz Wilkins and Robin Schavoir and an Executive Producer of Otherland, by Alex Le Bas and Alex Brisker. Throughout his acting career, Dixon has appeared in a variety of features and shorts, recently performing in Mr. Wilkin's short film, Mediums (Whitney Biennial, New York, and The Tate Modern, London) as well as Mr. Wilkin's award winning, controversial radio play, The Republic. Currently, Dixon's work can be found on iTunes and Amazon Prime in the award winning, EVOL, Michael Perrone's debut feature, and in the award-winning writer/director Roger Hayn's first feature, Congratulations Debby which premiered internationally and streams on memory.is/debby. He can also be seen on the festival circuit in Gleb Osatinski's award winning short, Father, Shukai Wang’s 7045 Steps, and Brian Tracey’s Down and Away. Dixon appears as Simon, in European director Sandeep Kumar's internationally award winning comedic short, Another Day in Manhattan, having premiered in Vienna, Austria and winning Dixon two Best Actor Awards. (The Art is Alive Film Festival and The Indo-French International Film Festival) He is currently in Michael Perrone's second feature, The Man Behind the Camera, (Co-starring as Walter Hughes) set for international release early 2022. In addition, Dixon and Sandeep Kumar are collaborating on a feature entitled, Chasing William, about an aging man's disturbingly misguided search for happiness. Dixon is also the author of the experimental memoir, There's a Person in Here, under the pseudonym, James Patrick.
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Gleb Osatinski
Resentment Film, LLC
