Glenn Holsten

Glenn Holsten is a documentary storyteller who creates human-driven films.  His movies cover topics ranging from the arts and sciences to mental health awareness and recovery.  Glenn’s latest documentary, WYETH, tells the story of one of America’s most popular, but least understood artists, Andrew Wyeth.  The film premiered on the prestigious PBS series American Masters.  Glenn’s mental health projects have included the films HOLLYWOOD BEAUTY SALON, about a salon where staff and clients alike are in the process of recovery, and OC87: THE OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE, MAJOR DEPRESSION, BIPOLAR, ASPERGER’S MOVIE, about a man who strives to become a filmmaker despite multiple challenges.  These and other films have screened theatrically, on Netflix, on national televisions stations PBS and Ovation, and at the Tribeca Film Festival. 

Glenn is a recipient of a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, an Independence Foundation Fellowship in the Arts, a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship, and sixteen Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards. He has been given silver and gold awards from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for innovative television production. A collection of his work was exhibited in the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s 20th Century Video Gallery. 

Glenn is no stranger to travel and adventure.  He has directed films in Argentina, China, Portugal, Kenya, Rwanda, Northern Ireland, Poland, Bosnia and the Republic of Georgia.  In 2000, he traveled to Mongolia, where he conducted a workshop for television professionals that explored creative methods for storytelling on television.