Glenn Holsten, Co-Director

Glenn Holsten is a documentary storyteller who creates human-driven films, from the arts to the sciences.

For PBS, Glenn directed WYETH, a portrait of America’s most popular, but least understood artist (for American Masters series); The Barnes Collection, which follows Dr. Albert Barnes’ remarkable rise from Philadelphia’s working-class neighborhood to the top of the modern art world, and Thomas Eakins: Scenes from Modern Life, a lyrical examination of America through the eyes of the 19th century painter.

Recent works include The Instrumental Chemist, which presents the remarkable life and legacy of chemist, inventor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Arnold O. Beckman, Flowing Water which tells the story of the revitalization of the Longwood Garden’s Main Fountain Garden – a lavish jewel in the crown of one of the greatest collections of fountains in the United States and Hollywood Beauty Salon, a story about life at an intimate beauty parlor inside of the Germantown Recovery Community, a non-profit mental health program in Philadelphia, where staff and clients alike are in the process of recovery.

Other long-form documentary directing credits include The Barefoot Artist, about global artist Lily Yeh, which was filmed on four continents; SEE, a film that he created in collaboration with painters Bo Bartlett and Betsy Eby; OC87: The Obsessive-Compulsive, Major Depression, Bipolar, Asperger’s Movie; Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968; Saint of 9/11, about Father Michael Judge, the beloved chaplain to the NYC Fire Dept.; Gay Pioneers; JIM IN BOLD; and HOUSE, a 30-minute film about The Korman Residence in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania that was famed Philadelphia architect Louis I. Kahn’s final residential commission.

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