Penelope Buitenhuis

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Penelope Buitenhuis (born 1963) is a Canadian film and television director and screenwriter. [1] 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 . [2]

Originally from Toronto, Ontario, she moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, in the late 1970s to study at Simon Fraser University. [1] She subsequently moved to Berlin, Germany, for a number of years, making a number of short films with a radical artists' collective before releasing her debut feature film, Trouble, in 1993. [1]

She subsequently returned to Canada, where she directed the films Boulevard (1994) [3] and Giant Mine (1996). [4]

Her other credits have included episodes of the television series Lonesome Dove , Kung Fu: The Legend Continues , Wind at My Back , Cold Squad , Power Play , Train 48 , Bliss , Paradise Falls , Metropia and Pretty Hard Cases .

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Mike Roberts, "Emerging from underground: Director brings anarchy and rock 'n' roll to screen". The Province , April 28, 1995.
  2. ↑ Craig Takeuchi, "Directors Guild of Canada Awards: Atom Egoyan's Chloe leads nominees". The Georgia Straight , July 8, 2010.
  3. ↑ Peter Goddard, "Boulevard lined with tense sex, violence". Toronto Star , November 11, 1994.
  4. ↑ Bonnie Malleck, "Giant Mine unearths some powerful emotions". Waterloo Region Record , December 11, 1996.
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