My name is Glenn, my family calls me Glennuccio, and my friends call me Nooch!

I’ve been a filmmaker my whole life, falling in love with it when I still thought booby traps were for trapping girls’ boobies. Even before I ever picked up a camera, I was always relating every experience to making a movie. I remember drawing comic strips as though they were storyboards, not knowing what a storyboard was, and sketching original characters who would eventually star in my films. Whenever I played with my action figures, I’d create plots for them, giving each character a story, a voice, and a personality. Each fight was choreographed like they were actors, and filmed like my eyes were the camera.

Movies and music were constantly opening doors to new passions for me; The Wizard of Oz (first movie I ever saw) got me into performing and doing voices. Phil Collins (my first concert) began my love for playing the drums. The Three Stooges, Laurel & Hardy, and Looney Tunes ignited my obsession with comedy. The 1990 Ninja Turtles movie is why I became a fighter, took up Tae Kwon Do, became a black belt, then a Junior Olympics Champ in ’97. Teen Wolf (’85) got me obsessed with Halloween. Then there was Star Wars. Those movies, along with the behind-the-scenes featurettes on the Special Edition VHS tapes, are what made me want to be a director. And last, but not least… my parents, who held nothing back and taught me how to excel in anything I did. I was 9 when I knew that making movies was going to be my career.

I’ll never forget the first lesson I ever learned in filmmaking. I was around 7 or 8, and my mom and dad had just bought their very first camcorder… which became my camcorder. One night at my aunt and uncles, my uncle showed me how stop-motion animation worked by moving a snake he’d made from red Playdough little by little, pressing record then instantly hitting pause in between each move. After repeating the process several times, we watched it back and my jaw dropped. From that moment on, I was forever addicted to this new magic.

I am self-taught, having relentlessly watched and studied hundreds of movies, behind-the-scenes featurettes, reading as much as I could, and putting it all into practice with the goal of learning something new every day. I’ve always been able to relate to movies and how they’re made, instinctively noticing all of the little details that make up a great scene. To me, what defines a filmmaker is his/her ability to take a camera and whatever’s in front of them, create a story, and bring it to life on screen.

Now, I leave you with 3 great lessons I learned from a wise high school basketball coach: Never get less than 12 hours of sleep. Never play cards with a guy who’s got the same first name as a city. And never go near a lady who’s got a tattoo of a dagger on her body. Now you stick with that, everything else is cream cheese.