Paradise Falls
2005
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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: A Wake. Penelope is an award winning writer and director with a distinguished career working in Europe, Japan, Canada and the US.
FILM | TELEVISION. Feature Films; Television; Docs + Shorts; IN DEVELOPMENT
Penelope Buitenhuis. Director: A Wake. Penelope is an award winning writer and director with a distinguished career working in Europe, Japan, Canada and the US.
Directing extensively for Lifetime telling true and fictional stories about women in peril, I am known for getting strong performances while shooting under tight schedules, and work closely with writers to make production-friendly scripts with sharply focused plots.
Boulevard | Trailer. A street worker takes in a young woman on the run from her misogynist boyfriend, resulting in a dangerous stand-off with her pimp and a relentless detective out to arrest them. Starring: Lou Diamond Phillips, Rae Dawn Chong, Lance Hendrickson, Kari Wuhrer. +.
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...
