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Penelope Buitenhuis (born 1963) is a Canadian film and television director and screenwriter. She is most noted as a two-time Directors Guild of Canada award nominee, receiving nods for the DGC Allan King Award for Best Documentary Film in 2002 for Tokyo Girls, and the DGC Award for Best Direction in a Feature Film in 2010 for A Wake.
Penelope Buitenhuis. Director. Writer. Producer. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Penelope is an award winning writer and director with a distinguished career working in Europe, Japan, Canada and the US. Most recently she co-wrote and directed A Wake which won best feature at numerous festivals, receiving first prize for the screenplay at the Rhode ...
Mini Bio. Penelope is an award winning writer and director with a distinguished career working in Europe, Japan, Canada and the US. Most recently she co-wrote and directed A Wake which won best feature at numerous festivals, receiving first prize for the screenplay at the Rhode Island Film Festival and nominated for the DGC best director award.
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Feature Films — Penelope Buitenhuis. +. A Wake. “An intriguing mystery about a troupe of actors who reunite for the wake of their eccentric theatre director (Nicholas Campbell). But all hell breaks loose over the weekend when secrets and lies are exposed. Featuring a superb ensemble cast, A Wake uses the rawness of improvisation and modern ...
As an experimental director, Penelope Buitenhuis is best known for using Super 8 and 16mm film to capture her subjects, which have ranged from political anarchists to trendy Japanese bar...
Apr 29, 2011 · Interview – Penelope Buitenhuis, director of A Wake – by Clinton Hallahan. A cross between the 2009 dark comedy 44 Inch Chest and an alternate reality Royal Tenenbaums, Penelope Buitenhuis’s A Wake is one of the more daring Canadian film productions of the last decade.
