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.