Glenda Rome is a Scottish filmmaker, originally from rural Dumfries and now living near Edinburgh. She moved to the city at eighteen to study photography and film, beginning a lifelong pursuit of how poetry and image shape the way we perceive the world.

For over two decades, Glenda has worked as a freelance filmmaker, cinematographer, and workshop facilitator, creating films and projects that bridge art, activism, and education. Her work has taken her from the rainforests of Ecuador — collaborating with Indigenous communities fighting to protect their land from oil companies — to Alaska, working alongside Iñupiat people whose stories speak to resilience and belonging. She has also worked extensively with young people across the world, including disenfranchised youth and young offenders, helping them use film as a means of expression and empowerment.

Alongside her international work, Glenda has continued to create films closer to home — from short dramas and documentaries to music and community projects — with a consistent focus on environmental awareness, social justice, and poetic visual storytelling. Her filmmaking merges the precision of cinematography with the sensitivity of a poet’s gaze, giving voice to those often unheard and finding beauty in perspectives too easily overlooked.

Her debut feature, Expressing the Earth, marks a return to her first love — the Scottish landscape — and explores how the ideas of poet-thinker Kenneth White resonate deeply with her own creative journey. Through this film, Glenda celebrates the quiet, transformative power of seeing, listening, and expressing the living world, honouring a visionary whose legacy feels profoundly relevant today.