Xenia Glen
Acting
Biography
Xenia is a filmmaker and co-founder of Sleepwalker. Her short film, ALO, was programmed at the BFI London Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival London, and Encounters. It is being expanded into the feature film CARABAO with Home Team. Xenia’s film, THE MEMORY BOOM, an experimental feature, premiered at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and was nominated in the Rebels with a Cause competition. It also played at the REC Film Festival. Xenia is in post-production on the narrative/documentary hybrid feature CAMEL BEFORE THE STORM, commissioned by Natural England and Arts and Culture, University of Exeter. As producer, she is in post-production on THE WALNUT OF KNOWLEDGE, a documentary short supported by the BFI Doc Society’s Made of Truth fund; in pre-production on ASO, co-produced by Helium Media; and in pre-production on MEADOW ROAD, an archive based feature film. Xenia’s previous writer/director/producer work includes MY FILIPINO (premiered at LSFF), BACKBONE (nationally broadcast on BBC Three), SEW (commissioned by Talkies and the Emerging Voices Film Foundation), and PORCELAIN (commissioned by the Roundhouse). Xenia was Development & Production Executive on THE CONTESTANT 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.
Known For
London Paris New York is a film that captures the angst of the twenties, the most dramatic period of one's life - when you have to find a career, you have your first significant relationship and most importantly form your identity in this world. This is story about Lalitha, a middle class south Indian girl from Chembur (an eastern suburb in Mumbai) who is on her way to New York to study politics with full scholarship, and Nikhil, a Punjabi, rich kid from Bandra (a posh western suburb of Mumbai) who is going to study Film Making in London on 100% dad's money. They decide to hangout together one evening in London and find that they are completely drawn to each other even as their future lies on separate continents. The film follows their personal journey and their love story as they meet in London, Paris and New York for a night each over eight years. The film is in three chapters and each chapter is shot in a manner that mirrors the mental state of Nikhil and Lalitha.
London, Paris, New York
Alo, an undocumented overseas Filipino worker, lives in an overcrowded house-share in London. He is struck by a latent neurological problem, which causes a bout of seizures and disrupts his situation in the household. The residents of the house are posed an ultimatum; should they risk Alo’s health or call an ambulance, potentially resulting in his deportation?
Alo
What is inside the brain of a man whose memory is fading? Featuring anonymously donated, never-before-seen, decaying 16mm archive footage, the film blends documentary and scripted elements. Memory becomes film, and as the celluloid deteriorates so does your brain. But the journey is still joyful and pleasurable, like one where you only remember the good things.
The Memory Boom
A teenager struggles to hide her scoliosis brace in an attempt to appear 'normal'.