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.
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.
FILM | TELEVISION. Feature Films; Television; Docs + Shorts; IN DEVELOPMENT
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...
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 ...
director STATEMENT. The radical storytelling of Fassbinder, Godard and Truffaut inspired me to write and direct. There was truthfulness and depth to their work and I had to go where that came from. Moving to Paris and then Berlin, I was determined to make cutting edge films focused on fierce, unique characters, especially women.
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