Kenny Glenaan
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Kenny Glenaan is a filmmaker based in Renfrewshire, working across fiction, documentary and theatre. He is currently finishing a PhD looking at the impact of militarism on the village of Garelochhead, out of which he created an ethnographic/autoethnographic documentary film entitled, The Village.
Previous work includes the award-winning films: Gas Attack; Summer; Yasmin; Dirt Road to Lafayette. TV work includes: The Cops and Buried for Tony Garnett; Charlie; Paddington – a single film about the Paddington rail crash; Magnificent 7 – single film about a family on the autism spectrum; The Right to Life – short documentary film as part of portmanteau feature The Ten Commandments, inspired by the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
Theatre directing includes Athol Fugard’s A Place with the Pigs, which won a Fringe First; Joe Orton’s Loot; One, Two, Hey! by James Kelman; Asylum! Asylum! and Hughie on the Wires, by Donal O’Kelly; Over the Wire, by Seamus Keenan and Nutcase, by Colin Bateman. Radio directing includes: The Art of the Big Bass Drum, by James Kelman for BBC Radio 4. He is currently Artist Residence at Paisley Refractive.
Collective Home: Community, Creativity & Action in Argyll is one of the 23 Scotland-wide projects awarded funding through Culture Collective in 2026-2027.
Funded by the Scottish Government, Culture Collective places creativity at the heart of community development, supporting artists and organisations to work directly with communities, respond to local priorities, strengthen local identity and create paid opportunities for creative practitioners.
Focussed upon the concept of home and what this means now for communities in Argyll, our project reflects the distinct character and composition of our rural and coastal region. Through sustained projects devised collaboratively by the creative practitioners we support and the participating communities, we will explore what home means for young people in Argyll, for those facing the challenges of the climate crisis, and for those with lived experience of displacement and settling in this region. Developed in partnership with local organisations, our work will harness the power of creativity and collective action to build community, promote cultural exchange, and enhance lives.
