Gwenllian Thurstan

Gwenllian Thurstan is a documentary filmmaker, who recently finished studying an MFA in Creative Documentary at UCL's Open City Docs School, under the mentorship of filmmaker Sophie Fiennes. Her first mid-length documentary, Beyond Illusion and Doubt (2021), was shortlisted for The Grierson Award for Best Student Documentary. Gwen grew up in the countryside of West Wales, studied in Glasgow (BA Filmmaking at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) and now lives and works in London.