Alo, an undocumented overseas Filipino worker, is struck by a latent seizure which jeopardises his status in the UK.
Writer Antosh Wojcik & Xenia Glen
Producer Amy George
Year complete 2021
Run time 14 Minutes
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Xenia Glen
Xenia is a multidisciplinary filmmaker who works predominantly as a writer/director. In 2017, Xenia won the Film and TV Charity’s John Brabourne Award to support her filmmaker collective, Sleepwalker. She has since co-founded Sleepwalker as a production company which she has produced five short films through. Additionally, Xenia worked as a development producer and in-house writer/director/producer at the BAFTA-nominated and Emmy-winning Misfits Entertainment between 2018-2022. Prior to this, Xenia worked at Shooting People on film commissions for Puma’s Films4Peace and Channel 4’s Random Acts.
Antosh Wojcik
Antosh Wojcik is a writer, sound designer, musician and member of the FWRDMTN creative house. His cross-disciplinary performance piece, How To Keep Time: A Drum Solo for Dementia, was commissioned by Penned in the Margins and toured the UK & internationally in 2019 supported by Arts Council England.
He is an educational resource consultant and facilitator for Young City Poets, a National Literacy Trust poetry and education programme. In 2019, he was lead poet for Bold Words at The National Poetry Library, a poetry course for writers with dementia and their carers. He mentored and produced projects for the Calling the Shots and BBC development programme, New Creatives in 2020.
Amy George
Amy works across all stages of filmmaking from development to distribution. She represents films by Park Chan-wook, Alfonso Cuaron, Joel & Ethan Coen, Isabel Coixet, Patricia Rozema, Gurinda Chadha, Oliver Assayas, Wes Craven in the international marketplace. Before that she did a law degree and worked in the theatre on the revival of Steven Berkoff’s East at the King’s Head. In her spare time she has produced eight short films with budgets ranging from £200 to £20,000, including BFI and BBC commissions.
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