Glenn Leyburn

Glenn became a filmmaker after working successfully for many years as a graphic designer, predominantly in the music industry. He is known in particular for his collaborations with soundtrack composer and music producer David Holmes. Glenn started out designing album covers and subsequently became a record label art director, he has also directed several music promos. This ongoing collaboration led Glenn, David and Lisa Barros D’Sa to set up their production company Canderblinks Film and Music. Glenn and Lisa’s debut directorial short film and Canderblinks’ first production, ‘The 18th Electricity Plan’, premiered at the LA Shorts Film Festival and went on to play in festivals around the world, winning awards at The Cork International Film Festival and Galway Film Fleadh. Their feature film debut, ‘Cherrybomb’, starring Rupert Grint, Robert Sheehan and Kimberley Nixon had its world premiere in competition at the 2009 Berlinale Generations. It went on to win the Belfast Film Festival Audience Award that year, and was subsequently bought by Indi Vision/Universal Pictures for distribution in the UK. In 2012 Glenn and Lisa completed their second feature, ‘Good Vibrations’, an uplifting drama/biopic about Belfast’s punk scene in the 70s. A Canderblinks co-production with Revolution Films London, the film was also made with BBC Films, Irish Film Board and NI Screen. ‘Good Vibrations’ opened both the Belfast Film Festival and the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2012. It has won awards this year at the Galway Film Fleadh and the Belfast Film Festival and has garnered excellent reviews as well as praise from critic Mark Kermode who gave it his Film of the Year award and filmmakers Ron Howard and Mark Cousins. The Canderblinks team continues to develop a full slate of new feature film projects.