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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.
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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.
Penelope Buitenhuis. Ontario. Penelope Buitenhuis started as an experimental filmmaker in Paris and Berlin, and after the success of her short about the Berlin Wall, she made her first feature, which led her back to Canada.
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. 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 ...
SOME HIGHLIGHTS OF MY CAREER. In television, I directed the pilot for Cold Squad which ran for seven seasons and was the only woman to direct Kung Fu: The Legend Continues and Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years, both full of stunts and complex plot lines.
Apr 29, 2011 · 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.
