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Penny Lane
Penny Lane has been making innovative nonfiction films for over a decade, including 8 feature documentaries. Some of these titles are HAPPY AND YOU KNOW IT, CONFESSIONS OF A GOOD SAMARITAN, LISTENING TO KENNY G, HAIL SATAN?, NUTS! and OUR NIXON. Her films have premiered at Sundance, Toronto, Tribeca, SXSW and Rotterdam, and have been financed and/or distributed by partners like HBO, Hulu, Magnolia Pictures, Netflix, Anonymous Content, Fremantle, Impact Partners, Sandbox Films, Concordia and Jigsaw. Penny is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, and in 2018 she was honored with a Chicken & Egg Breakthrough Award, received the Vanguard Award at SF DocFest, and was admitted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She has been honored to receive mid-career retrospectives at the Museum of the Moving Image, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, San Francisco DocFest, Open City Documentary Festival and Cinema Moderne. She has been awarded grants and fellowships from Sundance Institute, Creative Capital, Cinereach, TFI Documentary Fund, Wexner Center for the Arts, Jerome Foundation, Catapult Film Fund, MacDowell, Yaddo and many other organizations. She’s won many awards (including a Sundance Jury Prize for Editing) but is probably most proud of being “Most Badass!” at the Iowa City Documentary Film Festival in 2009, or perhaps being named “Queen of Documentary Cinema” by the Winchester Alamo Film Club in 2023.Browse all performers