Xenia Glen

Xenia is a Dorset-based Filipino-British filmmaker and co-founder of Sleepwalker. As writer/director, Xenia is developing Carabao, a feature film, with producer Dominic Buchanan at Home Team (in association with Sleepwalker). Carabao is supported by the BFI Network’s Early Development Fund, the BFI Development Fund, and is an expansion of her short film Alo that played at: BFI London Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival London, Encounters, and was selected for Short of the Week. 

As producer/director, Xenia is in production on the moving image feature Camel Before The Storm, a video art and spoken word commission by Natural England and Arts and Culture, University of Exeter. Xenia’s latest film as producer/director, The Memory Boom, an experimental feature, premiered at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival where it was award-nominated in the Rebels with a Cause competition. It also played at the REC Film Festival and was commissioned by Exeter Phoenix and the National Lottery Heritage Fund. 

As producer, her short documentary The Walnut of Knowledge, supported by the BFI Doc Society’s Made of Truth fund, is having its world premiere at the London Short Film Festival. Xenia is also in production on Meadow Road, an archive-based feature documentary. 

Xenia’s previous writer/director/producer work includes My Filipino (premiered at LSFF), Backbone (nationally broadcast on BBC Three), Porcelain (commissioned by Roundhouse), and Sew (commissioned by Talkies and the Emerging Voices Film Foundation). Xenia was Development & Production Executive on The Contestant (Toronto International Film Festival) and Junior Producer on Donna (BAFTA-longlisted) for Misfits Entertainment, where she worked from 2018-2022. She is a recipient of the John Brabourne Award, BAFTA Mentorship, and has participated in BFI Network’s Shorts2Features and NETWORK@LFF programmes.

IMDB | Film/TV Agent: Christina Pickworth at Imagine Talent