Kenny Glenaan

Currently preparing BBC/feature length documentary on the author 'James Kelman: Inside the Narrative'.

Recent Work includes the feature film - Dirt Road to Lafayette. 6 x 1 hr thriller Acceptable Risk for Saffron Pictures, Dublin and RTE and Paranoid for Red/ITV. 

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Previous work includes, the Bafta and RTS winning The Cops and Buried for Tony Garnett. Gas Attack for C4 which was blown up to 35mm and won the Michael Powell Award at the Edinburgh Film Festival and several other awards. Summer, for Sixteen Films which won Bafta’s for best direction and best film/best actor awards. Yasmin, which won the audience award at Dinnard and the Ecumenical award at Locarno, and several best actor awards. 
Other work includes first two parts of ‘Charlie',  a 3 x 90’ comedy for RTE, and 'The Ark’, a single TV film for Red Planet/BBC1; Paddington, A TV film for BBC 1 about the Paddington rail crash; Magnificent 7 again for BBC1, a single TV film about a family of kids on the autism spectrum. And the short documentary, The Right to life, which was part of the portmanteau feature length Doc entitled ‘The Ten Commandments’ inspired by the UN declaration of human rights.
Theatre directing includes several new plays working closely with the writers from inception through to production, and also work by Atholl Fugard - A Place with the Pigs, which won a fringe first, and Joe Orton’s Loot.
Before directing I worked as a carpenter, in a Romanian orphanage, and picked coffee beans in Nicaragua.